EU election...

[Furunculus]

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-L...-to-block-UKIP

....and they have the gall to call UKIP supporters racist!
Not to mention the same underlying tactic of "business as usual" for the miscreants in Parliament.
Utter contempt for the electorate from utter bastards.

Actually, this is what i like about the tories; it is all about the manipulation of power.

It is why they have have been winning elections decade after decade for nigh on a quarter of a millennia!
They have no core ideology around which to become fossilised when it ceases to provide answers to the great questions of the age. You gotta admire the adaptability of the buggers, no one else has their staying power:

The liberals rolled in in 1680 as the Whigs and gave up the ghost 250 years later.
Labour arrived in 1865 as the IWA and are already looking pretty shaky as an ongoing force just 150 years later.

labour 1915 = less than 7 million trade union members (population 40m)
labour 1965 = more than 14 million trade union members (population 50m)
labour 2015 = less than 7 million trade union members (population 60m)

Is there any sign of a Labour 2.0, and if not, who comes next?
We retain an adversarial political culture and society (unlike our consensual continental neighbours), so there will be a next. have no doubt.

I was/am kind of hoping that it will be the Lib(-Dems)erals again, but it does rather depend on whether they can hold their p00p together until 2020. Labour is going to be really struggling to find a purpose then, and they may be dethroned as the natural home of the left in 2025 if the liberals make a good fist of it in the one previous.