The End is Nigh... (Part 2)

The previously mentioned Tory District Councillor got his premonition of doom and gloom from comments made by Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, in Paris earlier this year. King is also said to have commented that whoever gets in power this time around will never get in power again for a generation. Even some Tories have enough common sense to realise that government this time around could well be a highly poisonous chalice.

So why all the doom and gloom? Or maybe to rephrase that question; are you all aware what kind of crap we're all in whatever happens on Thursday?

If you work for the police and the NHS, then you can vote whoever you want to without a guilty bone in your body, your job is safe. The rest of us? By January 2012, unless there's a real miracle, 1 in 5 of us could be out of work. We'll be paying 20% VAT; there will be a hike in council tax next year because council funding will be slashed; we'll have less firemen - it isn't an essential service according to any of the parties - ask your candidate, he will not give you an answer. There will be no money for projects, no money for the youth or the elderly; we'll start getting into debt to live; we'll be expected to bring our children up and care for our parents; there will be no increases in salaries, but there will be indirect tax increases every single budget - your cigarettes, booze, petrol will all go up higher and higher and eventually, we won't have enough money to spend on luxuries and there will be a depression, one that will cripple not just this country, it will sweep throughout Europe; but the party in power will get the blame. Austerity will be the key word; bitterness will sweep the nation, because this will affect almost everyone; even the most guarded and withdrawn super rich Conservatives, behind their electric gates or stone walls.

The first things you'll see are park lawns going uncut; roads never being repaired; broken things remaining unfixed; then increases in parking costs, more opportunities for people to become parking wardens; punitive measures that will be short term only.

If you don't do anything else this week, think about this: if there has to be at least £60billion worth of cuts to be made by 2014 and this is going to mainly come from public spending; how are the parties going to find money to use to stimulate industry and commerce in the worst hit areas to ensure we don't have 4 million people unemployed by next Christmas?

No wonder the District Councillor thinks a hung parliament is the best thing that can happen to British politics, because that way none of them can take the blame. I'm not trying to be a doom and gloom merchant; I just think we all need to know that we're about to face - it isn't going to be nice.