Hang In There…!

Here we go again – A Hung Parliament…

Mind you, there’s a difference.   When we had Hung Parliaments in the past they were visited upon ‘great’ men – such as Herbert Asquith, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Harold Wilson.

Today, and for the last month, we have had, strutting around the UK constituencies, political pygmies such as David Cameron, the young public school whipper-snapper, who has swaggered through the last few weeks as though he was already carrying the keys to No. 10 Downing Street in his back pocket.

Then comes fledgling Nicholas Clegg, the new kid on the block, who’s performance at the first Leaders’ Debate won him an idolic following for his acting ability, and who has decided he can lick anyone daring to challenge his newly-discovered popularity.

Lastly, we have Gordon Brown, who petulantly believed for twelve years that he should have been elected leader of the Labour Party rather than the popular choice of Tony Blair. And Gordon waited…and waited…and waited… until Tony finally stepped down and allocated his prime ministership to Gordon – until it was time for the next election….

Poor Gordon.  He, neither, has ever been able to transmit an aura of prime ministerial “greatness…”

Cameron and Clegg are, as yet, unproven.  and the unfortunate Gordon Brown – who was a pretty shrewd Chancellor under Tony Blair, and who has been the respected advisor for the rest of the world’s currencies during the recent World Currency Crisis – now finds himself the target of the British public who blame him for the state of Britain’s borrowing deficit.

Yet – if only an indignant British public would understand – Labour’s deficit has gone only, and sympathetically, towards supporting not only jobs, but the jobless, and the needy of this country.  In fact, Gordon unloaded billions onto the very people who caused the trouble – the bankers – in the mistaken belief that they would start to lend… and lend… and lend, to keep British Business afloat and jobs available.

But what did the bankers do?  Why, they hogged it to themselves, of course – even to the extent of paying out massive bonuses to failed executives!  It beggars belief…

In fact, Gordon Brown has caught for ill winds of one kind or another ever since Tony Blair stepped down to jump onto the lecture-circuit band-wagon, and now the British public –  needing someone to blame for their trials and tribulations over the last couple of years – have decided to make Gordon Brown the whipping boy.

The fact that it was the virulent greed of the world’s financial institutions – closely followed by Britain’s own money-grabbing bankers – that caused the avalanching collapse of Britain’s own currency, goes unrecorded by the stupified British voter, baying for blood.  ”It’s him”, they cry.  ”It’s that Gordon Brown and his damnable Labour Government that’s the cause of it all…”

“Rightly so”, agrees young David, nodding wisely as he confidentally contemplates the swingeing cuts his new Conservative government will be planning.

“Labour’s finished as the party of opposition”, says Johnny-Come-Lately Nick.  And he wonders how he is going to get his request for the end of the electoral ‘First Past The Post’ set-up OK’d by young David -should David become the new Prime Minister.

Meanwhile, the world’s currency markets have become ‘volatile’, apparently.  Why so?  It’s only a British General Election…!

Or maybe the villified Gordon Brown’s correcting influence on the economic outlook is having more effect on the world than he was given credit for…?

There are interesting times ahead – especially for the British public.

And if young David finally commits himself to leading a minority Conservative government, God help the poor, old, working-class.

Yes…  The  ’Poor’, and the ‘Old, and the ‘Working-Class’…

Just like me.

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