Legitimate government?

Gordon Brown resigns so that the Lib Dems will have the cover they need in order to support a minority Labour government rather than a Conservative one. A Labour/Lib Dem government would still be a minority government but crucially in matters financial they could almost certainly rely on the SNP and PC for support in not making any cuts to welfare, any departments full of their supporters or to projects centred on the North and those parts of 'the Union' favoured with devolved government.

Some questions:
Will the Lib Dems really want to be associated with keeping Gordon Brown in power as Prime Minister until a successor is chosen? This might be a step too far even for the most power hungry Lib Dem; so maybe Labour will look at Gordon Brown leaving office sooner than he has so far intimated and being replaced by someone more palatable to the Lib Dems as a caretaker Prime Minister until a new Labour leader is elected - Alan Johnson would be the obvious figure. The trouble with that scenario is that the Labour party will then have had two or maybe three 'unelected' Prime Ministers on the trot; is that acceptable to anyone but the Labour party? I am sure the BBC will find a way to justify it, well they will just parrot Peter Mandelson's line .

Is it right that the UK country will then be governed by the two parties that lost seats and votes in the general election? Does the UK really want to governed by a coalition of all the losers?

Can it be right that England voted Conservative - of the 532 seats so far contested in England the Conservatives won an absolute majority with 61 seats more than all other parties combined - but will have a government of Labour and others in part because of Scottish votes. What legitimacy can a government of this make-up have to govern England? Will this add spice to the question as to why Scottish (and Welsh MPs) can vote on legislation that affects only England, but that English MPs have no such role in voting on policy in Scotland? Why should the English have to suffer lower levels of per capita spending on health and education than the Scots but pay more per capita in taxation?

The time may have arrived for the Conservative party to accept that the Scottish and (to a lesser degree) the Welsh hate the English and only tolerate us because we subsidise their better services and state funded lifestyles. Once the Conservative party accept that then they can look at dropping the '& Unionist' part from the party title and look at home rule for the English. Yes the BBC will trot out the 'Little Englander' tag and yes it means going back on all those 'for the sake of the Union' speeches, but why should English taxpayers pay to be ruled by Celts. The Scottish electorate complained about illegitimate Conservative rule of Scotland during the last Conservative government, well 'the times they are a'changing' and the English will not be happy. This could be very fertile ground for the Conservatives, they lose one Scottish seat and eight seats in Wales but how many more might they gain from English voters sick of foreign rule?

So is Nick Clegg willing to break his word on supporting the party with the biggest mandate?

The news that Gordon Brown is to stand down as Labour leader sets in motion two things: one a Labour leadership election, or on previous form the coronation of someone unsuitable and two the formation of a Labour/LibDem government.

At 16:05 today I posted on Guido Fawkes that: 'I get the horrible feeling that the LibDems will end up propping up a Labour government that has changed leader. If so who wants to stay and who wants to flee the country? The two ‘beaten’ parties form a government; if Labour had come first and Conservatives and LibDems formed the government you know that riots would ensue and the BBC would be casting aspersions about ‘legitimacy’ but this way round there will be no protests.'

The BBC are in seventh heaven, they will gladly sacrifice Gordon Brown for a Labour/Lib Dem government that will continue the mismanagement of the economy and change the electoral system to ensure they are in permanent government.

You have to admire the way that Peter Mandelson, Gordon Brown and the BBC have played the last four or five weeks. As soon as it became clear that Labour could not win the general election they boosted the Lib Dems, then talked up the possibility of a hung parliament and then questioned how the Lib Dems could possibly work with the Conservative party.

So the second and third parties in the general election will stitch together a government and who will protest? I am so sick of this f**king country, it's left-wing commissars and state propaganda broadcasting service - I want out as it's me and other taxpayers in London and the South of England who will end up paying the price of Labour's failure and to support the rest of England and the Scottish and Welsh.

Of course the markets that had been cheering up with the likelihood of a Conservative government (aided formally or informally by the Lib Dems) have now taken fright and the pound has dropped a cent against the US Dollar and almost a cent against the Euro since the announcement.

This is one of the results of the BBC's hard work over recent weeks

The BBC's currency page shows what fears of a hung parliament have done to the markets:
Sterling down 2.33% today against the Dollar
Sterling down .86% today against the Euro
Sterling down 5.52% against the Yen

Is that what you wanted Jim Naughtie? Is that what you hoped for Nicky Campbell? Is that what you wanted John Humphrys? Is the champagne yet on ice at Broadcasting House?

Mission accomplished?

Mission accomplished? The BBC are reporting that:

'Tories 'just short of majority' - Tory leader David Cameron falls 19 seats short of a majority, finds a UK election exit poll.'

If so that will be minimum mission accomplished for the BBC and their Labour/LibDem masters. The bias shown by the BBC during this general election campaign has been shocking, not surprising, but shocking. I am not sure that I want to live in a country where the state media is so in thrall to one set of beliefs and is willing to go to almost any ends to ensure that their party/parties are elected.

If there is no majority Conservative government then I may have to seriously consider whether I want to remain in the UK. Now where would someone as 'goaty' as I be welcome?

Labour postal voting fraud, what happens when a journalist investigated

The Independent have the full story of the attack, and you should read it, but these commentaries I reproduce (my emphasis):

'So far Scotland Yard is looking into 28 allegations of bogus voter registration in London, although the Conservative and Respect parties both say they have highlighted many more. Concerns have been amplified by a flood of new voter registrations in the past few weeks in the run-up to the nationwide deadline on 20 April. Election officials in Tower Hamlets have removed 141 suspect ballots from the register but overall 5,166 new names were received before the deadline with little time to check their veracity.

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Tower Hamlets Council confirmed it had asked the police to investigate 10 cases of voter fraud in its area, but it revealed that 3,123 late applications have been received for postal votes and it has had too little time to properly check whether they are all genuine before the register closed.

That could open the poll in the two constituencies in Tower Hamlets – Bethnal Green and Bow and Poplar and Limehouse – to massive postal voter fraud. Respect is in a bitter fight to retain the highly marginal Bethnal Green seat – vacated by Respect MP George Galloway, who is standing in neighbouring Poplar and Limehouse – and, in an unprecedented development in British politics, all the candidates of the main parties are Bangladeshi Muslims.

The council said it would support calls to change the rules after Thursday's elections, to provide more time for checks to be carried out on late postal vote applications. "That could mean closing applications for postal votes at least four days before the normal voter registration process closes."'

That's it, tighten the rules after this general election...


Here's a Sky News report on a matter that the BBC will not be reporting any time this side of the general election...


The Mail reports that:

'Postal vote fraud: 50 criminal inquiries nationwide amid fears bogus voters could swing election

Voter fraud could determine the outcome of the general election as evidence emerges of massive postal vote rigging.

Police have launched 50 criminal inquiries nationwide amid widespread cases of electoral rolls being packed with ‘bogus’ voters.

Officials report a flood of postal vote applications in marginal seats. With the outcome of the closest election in a generation hanging in the balance, a few thousand ‘stolen’ votes there could determine who wins the keys to Downing Street.'

Meanwhile the BBC who are now in full campaigning mode try to reassure the public with this: 'Birmingham postal voting 'is now safer'


There are elements within the Labour party (and the BBC) who will stop at nothing to ensure that at worst the 'evil Tories' win with the smallest possible majority or at best Labour stay in power, with or without Lib Dem assistance. We were all warned in 2005 what was coming but it was not in the Labour government's interests to do anything about it and this Labour government has no interest in the British people just in power, control and money.

'Saint' Vince Cable?

Andrew Neil and Stephanie Flanders point out that Vince Cable is not the paragon of consistency that he claims and the line that the BBC normally push.



Thanks to Guido for the video.