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A good argument to the Null vote so thoroughly disliked by our establishment politicos! Generally when a politico bemoans the fact that people don't vote it's a cipher for: they aren't voting for me and the more people who have no command of the facts that can be persuaded to trot into the polling stations the more likely it is they'll fall for my empty rhetoric! Of course a substantial Null vote would kill this political strategy stone dead!

It's the most misused, disingenuous word used at this election. It obfuscates and downright deceives. No, that word isn't immigration, it's invest. When you hear "we are going to invest in..." you know you are being lied to - a politician never invests in anything! This is politico code for spending money we haven't actually got (and will never have), on things we probably don't need, in ways that won't actually produce any tangible investment returns. It's generally empty rhetoric, because anyone getting into power will have to face the broad reality of how state spending is already structured, and the wiggle room for changing anything at all is minimal - if you pursue the pet political project you used to buy votes you'll have to steal from things which pretty much everyone has already decided is really important. And... as spending on those other things has been refined over the years in the light of hard experience, and your pet political project is just starting out - the chances of simply squandering public money now becomes very much higher! Say you'll raise more tax to pay for it and your're fooling no one, because tax revenue has already been maximised by the numerous budgets of all governments. Yes, the plain truth is that raising the tax rate will result in less tax; or less tax from some other source, or worse: an actual drop in Gross Domestic Product to tax! So, any poltico using the 'i' word is either fooling you or fooling themselves. And... here's the kicker: is anyone who is either lying to you to grab power, or so easily fooled themselves, a safe enough pair of hands to put at the controls of our economy? Beware the 'i' word: it's a trap for fools!

Given the fact that national debt HAS to increase year on year to keep the Bankers' Ponzi scheme afloat, then, no matter who is in power, austerity will be the name of the game for the foreseeable future. This scam whereby the Treasury issues bonds (IOU's) to the Banks to print currency from thin air, backed by nothing at all, and then pays them interest on it, is the prime reason the UK, and the rest of the World for that matter, is perpetually in debt, and perpetually at war.

On a more serious note I do like the advert for the 'Can't Be Arsed Party' which is, according to the advert the country's biggest political party. In the past too much blood was spilt, too many bones broken, too many bruised bodies and too many pumped out stomachs to allow such a party to exist. I personally don't care who anyone votes for that is their decision but the important thing is that all those who are entitled a vote should turn up at the polling station, if they don't like any of the candidates then that does not matter simply spoil your voting slip, the important thing is that you turned up.

The whole thing is a disaster. We may yet end up with Tom and Jerry running the country!