Obey the false left-right paradigm! Or else!!

John Redwood - a Conservative politician who normally says some things that this blogger can rub along with quite happily - has really made this blogger's blood boil this morning.

In his most recent blog post, he talks about different responses to the Conservative election messages.

In one of his points, he writes:

UKIP supporters and sympathisers are critical. They want the Conservatives to speak mainly about the EU, sovereignty, immigration and related subjects. Time will tell how many of them carry out their threat and vote UKIP, knowing as they must do that it makes the election of a federalist MP in their seat and an overall federalist Lib/Lab government more likely.

Sorry John, but this is little more than emotional blackmail - and well you know it. It appeals to tribalism and preys on people's fears. That is no way to successfully win a mandate.

The way to win a mandate is to tap into public opinion. This opinion is formed on a spread of many matters.

Yes - the European Empire. Yes, on sovereignty. Yes - for some - on immigration. For this blogger, civil liberties are a big issue. For others, education, the economy, health and hospitals, transport and other issues will dominate where people place their 'X' on a ballot paper.

And many people will place an 'X' next to a party name just because that's who they've always voted for and who their father and their father's father always voted for.

One of the very noticeable things about the current election campaign is that nobody in the Lib-Lab-Con appears to have proposed any policies that set them up as providing a choice or opposition on any key issue.

So pathetic is the Lib-Lab-Con's message, that we now see a beauty pageant of leader's wives on our TV screens masquerading as the choice facing the country.

We know that when it comes to the European Empire, all three parties have the same position. Indeed, it is evident that there has been an unspoken bipartisan agreement in place for decades on the issue.

We know that on social care provision, all three parties recently had a closed door meeting in order to reach cross-party consensus. How many such clandestine pow-wow's take place? What is this sham masquerading as democracy?

Name a single policy area where there are any significant differences..?

Between the Lib-Lab-Con, the policies are all the same. Which is why we're being invited to know the cleaning arrangements of Samantha's and Tabitha's and Esmeralda's (or whatever their names are).

But you see, conjuring up the idea of "...if you don't vote for this party, the one you REALLY hate will get in" is why nothing ever changes.

It is that fear, that risk, which keeps in power those parties who have their clandestine meetings where policies are agreed behind closed doors.

Unless and until enough of us decide we want real change, all we'll get is more of the same masquerading behind different party rosettes - all of which have the word 'change' emblazoned across them but, in the case of the Lib-Lab-Con, it's change you can hope in and dream of rather than change you'll ever experience.

In conclusion, it makes no difference if a vote for UKIP (or the BNP or the English Democrats or the Greens or the Monster Raving Loony Party) lets either the Labour or Conservative Party win or lose.

After all, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party are indistinguishable. What difference does it make which of the two win, anyway?

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Not sure he's thought through his argument to the best of his strengths, but it is nonetheless wonderful to see Dan Hannan speaking up passionately about the Bill of Rights 1689 and his recognition of it's huge importance as part of this country's WRITTEN constitution (which most of the LibLabCon cartel would trick you into believing does not exist. It does. They just choose to ignore it, for to recognise it would mean making unlawful the reign of tyranny and the theft of the people's sovereignty which has been inflicted upon the British public by successive parties representing the LibLabCon cartel).