May 5
Can a country really want to vote away wealth and health to cut immigration? Polls and council election results showing big Tory gains might suggest so. However, Britain's first past the post system and brexit backing, disintegrating labour party are conspiring to make it appear more so, as is the lack of decent information in a right wing, xenophobic media landscape.
The majority of British people need to vote with their hearts, to make a point, and stop being so 'shrug their shoulders' British about 'getting on with it' or accepting 'there's nothing I can do' or worse, 'I'm OK, so everything's fine'. It is a scandal that turnouts in elections are so low, and falling.
How did this happen? Well, May told porkies about Brussels this week, accusing them of underhand tactics, when in fact they had been transparent. So, results won with lies and the connivance of much of the press. Sound familiar?
Britain has been falling down the press freedom rankings, and we can see why. With the Tories/UKIP in power, we don't have a free press, we have a state press, and with the BBC muzzled by threats of reduced income, what hope?
The massive loss of UKIP seats is not good news, except superficially. All it means is that kippers now feel safe that the conservative party is now BLUKIP, a right wing, populist, anti-immigrant party more concerned about keeping foreigners out than wealth and health IN. The power behind the throne is UKIP, many of whose backers have advocated privatising or dismantling the NHS in the past. Leaving the European Union is only the start of their plans for Nigel.
Oh, and how does a party with multiple pending cases of voting fraud do so well?