The voters are showing little loyalty as their is little leadership

The Sun reports a 5 point poll drop for the Conservatives which gives Labour a general election winning lead, were ballot held today.

The short term cause of this is the banker and private sector/wealth creation bashing that master RedEd Miliband has been engaging in. You see he's getting the credit because instead of standing against him the Conservatives have tried to pretend they agree. That means RedEd gets all the credit, and the fickle public start to buy into his whole crackpot leftwing good/bad capitalism 6th form argument. Perhaps George Osborne has just twigged this, but his intervention is way too late. This is were the triangulation and modernisation of what used to e the Conservative party falls flat on its face. ( Just as it tragically did in 2010. )

The wider story is the mob is fickle, spooked and willing to change its mind - especially if it see the herd heading in a particular direction. After all, apart from thinking things through - which lets face it isn't a popular voter preoccupation - what else do people have to go on.

There's a vacuum where there should be leadership - telling people that bonuses get taxed at 50% and then spent on stuff which mostly boosts the UK economy and is based on services given to those outside the UK !

This really is not going to go very well, unless some of the Conservative leadership start growing a backbone.

( This author takes it as read that having Lib Dems in any coalition is like have saboteurs in your ship - eagerly trying to kill everyone. But its no excuse everyone knows what sort of people they are so Cameron should be putting them in places where they can't do too much damage - unlike DECC ).

God Save the Queen

One of the few things you can rely on in life has been the dedication of Her Majesty the Queen.

For 60 years on the throne she has been an instrument of blessing to all her peoples.

I hope and pray she will remain on the throne for many more years.

The contrast with the current crop of self serving politicians and self appointed spokespeople and peoples champions could not be more stark.

Roll up roll up for the great Lib Dem hypocrisy feast !

The Lib Dems are hated by all the other parties, but not for their politics ( though much of that is objectionable ). No the Lib Dems are hated for their hypocrisy.

Chris Huhne is the high priest of nasty the nasty cult of Lib Demery.

So the cheer from the whole country when he was charged with lying is still echoing around the drinking holes of Westminster.

All cheer but one - Nick Clegg.

Cleggy hates Huhne, but is scared witless by him. Hence we have more L:ib Dem hypocrisy as Clegg claims he can't wait to get Huhne back in the cabinet. ( Maybe Clegg should do 5 years for that porkie himself ).

This is just going to get better and better - for all those who aren't paid up members of the Janus Party.

The lynching of Fred Goodwin

He committed no crime and was not disbarred as a director. Many have done worse than him.

Yes he's a disgrace, but then so are most of the current shadow cabinet who shared in Capt. Brown streaming on the UK onto the rocks ( though Capt. Brown has disappeared - gone in an early life boat to follow Blair onto the cash making circuit ).

This is all backfiring a little on #RedEd, but then he's just leader of the opposition and no one expects him to be grown up anyway.

This looks worse for David Cameron who is shown throwing a body to the pursuing wolves in the hope of saving his own popularity.


The press may have enjoyed the lynching, but the mob has got the taste for blood now and will want feeding again soon.

Update: Goodwin backlash: no need for Westminster lynch mob

Dan is right on the money - as he often is

There are various articles in the press attacking the weak weak weak coalition government and its gutless surrender to self defeating socialist envy.

So far I like this from Dan Hannan the best ... recommended reading.

Bonfire of the Envies

There has been a festival of beating up on Mr Hester at the RBS's bonus that the last Labour government authorised.

Since much of left wing politics is based on the unjustifiable optimism of lefties brains combined with their rejection of God and all morality ( though they are too igniorant to realise it ) they can be forgiven for using envy in the way little Red Ed has been doing.

Nick Clegg is a prize hypocrite since he has enjoyed his tax free EU salary and benefits and is fabulously wealthy by most of our standards and will go on to be rewarded for selling his countrymen out to his EU masters for the rest of his life.

Mayor Bojo is a chump for playing the envy card, and his willingness to sell out principles for expediency will have been noted in certain circles.

But the prize for stupidity and moral cowardice goes to David Cameron. Its the prime minsters job, often, to tell the public and voters what they don't want to hear. In doing so he ( but lets face it only she in living memory ) is doing their duty to the nation. David Cameron has failed to spell the facts of life out to an indulgged electroate. Instead modernising by allowing the politics of envy to go unchallanged ( must have played well with the focus groups ).

In addition with have the dangerous idea that the rich should pay for the state so that those who benefit from it most don't have to. The problem with this should be obvious to any conservative- you create a left voting majority which is suicidally committed to economic narcissism in the name of greed and envy ( carefully rapped up with words like investment, fairness, free etc ).

David Cameron should have been explaining why just taxing the rich more to tax those who benefit less won't work, but instead the siren voices of the modernisers and focus groups have called him onto the wrecking rocks of socialism.

He's becoming Ted Heath - it will take 15 years to sort this mess out.

Update: Hester has capitulated and the anti-Capitalist mob can chalk up another self inflicted injury on the UK. ( Remember Hester earned that bonus by saving us vastly more money - but when your committed to making everyone poor and miserable that's hardly going to stop the left, and the weak weak weak Ted Heath moderniser fan club who are so scared of them. )

Leading questions

As a tribute to the slippery nature Alex Salmond is trying to con his fellow residents out of the UK with his leading question its time for a Friday break and reminder of the shear brilliance of Yes Prime Minister I attach the clip below.

Integrity lost

One of those moral panic type surveys has been reported in the MSM today.

Apparently people in the UK are getting less honest, and more willing to tolerate lies, adultery etc.

For my 2ps worth I'd blame UK soap operas ( esp East Enders ) and programs like "The Apprentice" - where getting caught lying is just seen as evidence of how "passionate" and candidate is about themselves becoming Lord Sugar's next Apprentice.

Lying on CVs is now common place. Adultery is fine as long as its not your partner doing it.

Ultimately we reap what the modern church of the UK ( that's the BBC in case you've missed it ) sows. And the politicians - especially the New Labour types and Tory modernisers who utter contempt for truth and honesty goes unpunished to this day can share the blame.

Sad.

The UK must not lose another refinery

Despite all the anger and outrage you see the BBC whip up on petrol forecourt refining has been in decline in the UK for some time. The reasons are:

1. Poor margins ( yes really ) - remember refiners have to buy their oil before they sell the products.
2. Fear of environmental sanctions - large multinationals are afraid on the levels that career politicians will go to for a few extra votes in pursuing what the general public continues to mistakenly believe are all powerful oil majors.
3. Improved efficiency - we can produce more with less equipment - so some refineries have dropped out naturally - the least efficient ones ( this is capitalism working well ).
4. Competition from Europe and soon the middle east - the Saudis and others are keen to export products rather than crude. They also need jobs for their exploding populations ( no pun intended ). - imagine the day that the gulf cooperation council announces petrol sanctions against the UK, because that day is potentially coming soon.

The UK didn't blink when ICI was taken over and seems oblivious to the fact that one of the few industrial areas where we were world leaders is quickly being dismantled. The public hasn't realised that many of our major refineries are now owned by non-traditional oil refinery companies.

But the wake up call is arriving today with the closure of Coryton. ( Once Mobil, then BP now a cash starved Swiss company Petroplus ).

Not all refineries are the same, and Coryton produces important products that will be hard to substitute. It also sits next to what was the Shell Haven refinery ( closed and removed ).

Expect the price of Diesel to rise sharply in the South East - if it hasn't already. ( The reason diesel is more expensive than petrol in the UK these days is we now have to import diesel from Europe as its popularity has crossed over our diminishing refinery capability ).

And where is the coalition government on this ?

Well the bad news is that Lib Dem minister are in charge, Cable and Huhne. They are too distracted by their political careers and potential end of them to be looking after the vital interests of the nation.

Huhne has his green fairy land that he inhabits. Reality is coming round soon to knock him out of his delusions.

Cable is too busy hating success and business to notice that ordinary people will soon be stuck.

What will Govt do if Coryton stays shut ? It will have to do something.

Here's what may well happen:

1. Denial, possibly including something about global warming and biofuels being the future.
2. Press campaign "do something".
3. Half baked announcements and calling industry leaders into the dept of climate fairy dreams and/ or Industry.
4. Cameron takes over from Lib Dem no hopers. COBRA convened - immediate action announced (what is unimportant).
5. BP take over Coryton again for a temporary time on behalf of the govt.

In the mean time millions of people will have got very hot under the collar in petrol station queues, Labour will blame spiv capitalism, and Conservative poll ratings will plummet.

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