[Acrylic-bob]

"arch" dearheart, "arch"?? If the fat frump gets the selection I shall be changing my political affiliation. Why can we not have someone who is at least interesting. I am getting heartily sick and tired of all the achingly worthy and desperately unctious placemen we have been saddled with as MP over the last forty odd years.

Times are changing and it is high time that the usual suspects 'upped' their game.

Since I am here I may as well announce my predictions for the coming Westminster cat fight. It will be a hung parliament with a slim majority for the consevatives. Cameron, if he survives, will be forced to go to the country again in the autumn with a radically different manifesto in which you may expect some reference to an EU referendum and a radical overhaul of the voting system. Of course the prospect of National Bankruptcy will loom even closer by the autumn. So those of you who are hoping that a vote for New Labour will stave off the inevitable are merely indulging in Brown's delusions and will effectively make a dire situation even worse.

I recall the ancient Chinese saying; "May you be cursed to live in interesting times". The next few years, thanks to New Labour, are certainly going to be that, and more!