Common Sense and Logic Party (doesn't exist as yet) 1st draft MANIFESTO

There is less than a year to go until the General Election of 2015 and no plan of action aimed at restoring national stability and direction is on offer from any of the politicians who expect us to vote for them. Conservative, New Labour and Lib-Dems view the existing monetarist philosophy and economic model as being the only political game in town. To continue with the very same model that wrecked the country is both wrongheaded and lazy and needs addressing.

Can UKIP offer a sensible alternative? The power and influence they've gained as a result of May's twin polls, is drawn from their stance on the EU and uncontrolled migration, but beyond that pair of interconnected issues, all the party has to offer is an adherence to the same monetarism the other three parties cannot muster the wit to think outside the box of. If there's not an alternative to 'more of the same' then we have reached the point of 'game over' both for Britain as a nation, and for our hard won civilisation, which plainly isn't an acceptable situation any of us should be prepared to put up with. There must be a sensible alternative and is.

 What Britain needs rid of

For thirty five years the interests of the majority has been ignored whilst the wants and demands of Big Business have been slavishly adhered to. As a result, all the family silver has been sold off, we've a tax system designed to suit giant corporations and that gets run rings around by their clever accountants, the country has been utilised as a very productive 'cash cow' to the benefit of those calling the shots, and the rich have become ever richer, often by helping themselves to wealth that once belonged to us all. Alongside the minority serving economy, three and a half decades long in duration thus far; minimum wages, zero hours contracts, unpaid internships, debt for students and the mother of all benefits cultures has been imposed on the majority. The system stinks, is morally wrong, has bankrupted the country and made it dysfunctional.

What Britain needs instead

The most important resource ours or any other country must aim to get the best out of, is its people, and in this regard British politicians long ago lost the plot. The people exist not to be exploited, abandoned and abused, but must be given every assistance and opportunity to blossom and bloom, and this is especially true where the young are concerned. At the top end of the social structure, we need senior management to reconnect with the populous, simply because we are all in this together, a fact senior British management has entirely lost touch with over recent decades. Those abandoned to existing on sink estates, and attending sink schools, must be offered a way out of those places through the existence of real job opportunities. We need our traditional creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to be revived and the tidal wave of imports presently crashing in upon us to be held back. Some years down the line we must aim to balance the books and become an exporting country again, not of tat, but of high grade products. We need entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, and our skills base currently hanging by a thread to be revitalised. Our farmers must be assisted to get back on their tractors and we need our fields to be filled with crops and not houses. As a second tier of commerce that ought to be viewed as being the worthy version of a 'service economy' health, education, banking and the likes must be sensibly governed and properly resourced. Finally the areas of national life that add 'quality' to the lives of all must be put back to rights. Social services, child protection and care of the elderly and vulnerable.

None of the above is on the radar where the policy makers of the top three, now four, parties are concerned, yet all are vital to the restoration of Britain's heart and soul, and all are achievable with the right set of attitudes in place and then empowered.

The 'Common Sense and Logic Party'

The common sense party doesn't exist at present but maybe it should, and if it did the following would be items on the manifesto. All are just one liners presently in need of being fleshed out and will be in the coming weeks and months.

Manifesto

To be continued when a little less knackered...

Post Euro election - pre result.

On Thursday 22nd May just gone, we voted in the Euro Election and just hours from now,73 lucky individuals will get the phone call they've dreamt about, namely a first class ticket to board the European Gravy Train where £100K or there about per year will be come there way courtesy of taxpayers. Hundreds of candidates placed their names on the ballot paper and who can blame them, the prize being lots of undeserved money for rope Britain doesn't need and the majority of our population don't want. As to how great the resentment against continuing subservience to the EU actually is, we'll find that out when the results get announced and a grinning Nigel Farage remains plastered across our newspapers and TV screens.

I 'voted' in as much as I registered a protest by spoiling my ballot paper. I drew a line through all the names and wrote across it words to the effect of 'will not vote for the least worst/damaging of a rotten lot'. Since making that known, I've had a bit of grief from some folk who think it should be compulsory to vote and to not do so betrays the sacrifices made for democracy by generations gone before. My reply is that we need to be able to vote positively, for a candidate who can be expected to work hard and repay the trust placed in them. I'm clearly not going to endorse a 'yes man' nor an individual who doesn't believe in the same things I do, therefore, and because no candidate appeared on the paper I could trust, I felt compelled to spoilt it.

At the General Election a year from now I'll probably have to do the same again (not for the first time) which irks because I want to be able to cast a positive vote and should my candidate win, let she or he get on with it! I've no objection to an individual earning good money provided they work hard and reward my political sensibilities by reassuring me that whilst I'm hard at it, pulling my weight, doing my bit as a citizen by working hard and raising my family to have high standards, my political representative is doing the right thing by the community and country, reassuring me that she/he is on the case and standing up for my interests. To my way of thinking that's the whole point of electing 'representatives' the trouble is, it ain't happening, not in terms of national politics and certainly not at that jamboree / beano / endless cocktail party in Strasburg.

As to why a Euro sceptic like me couldn't bring myself to vote UKIP? Other than where the need to shake off the European straitjacket and control sensibly our borders, the party worries the hell out of me. They've no meaningful policies aimed at repairing our broken economy and society, but what they do talk about is more selling off of what's left of the family silver, and then of course are all the fruitcakes associated with the party 'Nige' could no doubt do without, but who are present and more than happy to demonstrate stupidity when a journalist with a microphone / camera are close by. Very worrying.   

The problem with Nigel; a major contradiction.

This morning at 3.30ish I found myself rudely awoken by none other than Nigel Farage who had got inside my head and was causing an upset!

There's a problem with Nigel and it's a glaring one that is for some strange reason being ignored. The issue in question is a contradiction that journalists and political commentators ought to address and demand an answer for. Central to UKIP's argument is that the British people were never asked for their permission in what is supposed to be a 'democracy' prior to fitting us up with an EU straitjacket and that forty years in, we've an absolute right to give a verdict on what has happened to the country since. As a result of membership for which permission was not sought, political sovereignty has been surrendered and the same fate has befallen our legal sovereignty as a result of lawyers binding us into the European Court of Human Rights. So now we answer to foreign politicians, bureaucrats and judges, all of which is wrong, and all of which Nigel reckons he's on the case about.

A country's COMMERCIAL SOVEREIGNTY is every bit as important to the life of the nation as is political and legal sovereignty, and yet, Nigel has nothing to say on that crucial matter. On the contrary, he's on the record for saying the NHS should be privatised and so presumably should the BBC. Who would buy our precious NHS? Hard bitten American, Chinese, Russian business interests with a view to utilising the sick people of Britain as business assets to be exploited to the maximum that's who.

We can be certain that will happen because that is exactly the fate to have befallen every other formerly owned by us all state asset, shipped out and into the portfolios of overseas business interests, management, and shareholders.

Nigel grew up a child of Thatcher and makes plain he is her greatest fan. As a City of London dealer operating at the heart of the casino culture monetarism 'gifted' our nation, he made plenty of cash from the sell-offs that began in the early 1980's and continue to date (The history and heritage of the Royal Mail having just been destroyed at a stroke of Vince Cable's pen and the process of a foreign takeover taking place currently) My question to Nigel is... If the surrendering of political and legal sovereignty is wrong (which it plainly is) how can it be right to wilfully hand over control of our commerce on which so many livelihoods depend, and which provides the nation with so much in terms of identity; to foreign control? Come on Nige, what's the answer?