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Money seems to have no meaning to our Government. After all with 'quantitive easing' you only need a printing press. Someone at the weekend said 'Quantitive Easing ' sounded like a laxative.

And, I think we are all missing something fundamental here. What Adam and Maggie are echoing is a sense of disconnect from our history. It's put quite well here: There's a general sense of anger at the political elites because instead of getting on with the job we put them in power to do they are carrying out their own social engineering agendas without any regard for our history, culture, or quality of life. The revolt against being swamped by immigrants isn't being directed at the immigrants themselves - we are a remarkably tolerant people - it's against the people who are using the immigrants to further their own agendas. When people like Chuka Umunna play the race card, calling anyone who question the wisdom of continuing mass immigration racist, it only serves to anger people more. We are anything but - or he for one wouldn't be where he is telling us what to think! It's the same with the EU, a cultural homogenising, and disconnection from our past. This comes out with many local people as a hark back to the pivotal point in their lives that was the miners strike. Only the terminally old are against any form of change. But change which is imposed by liberal elites without any form of discussion or involvement by the electorate to suit their own agendas (gay marriage being a blatant recent example), must be questioned by any thinking person. There's a further factor in our country at work here, and it's the London-centric nature of our economy. I don't think any country of our size suffers such an imbalance between the principal city and the provinces as we have to suffer. It distorts everything, and impacts our lives in countless ways. The ruling elites should be doing positive things to address this, but they relish their citadel inside the M25. HS2 is being spun as a mitigation of London's overbearing presence, but in fact all the evidence from overseas projects shows the opposite affect - once again, no real public discussion or consultation, the elites know best and will do all our thinking! What all this amounts to is a build-up to one of those once in several generations people's revolts to bring the ruling classes to heel. We all know this, but the London-centric liberal elites still don't see the writing on the wall. Yes, they are picking up clues, and they say they are listening, but we all know that it's pure spin, and that they'll just pick up where they left off after the GE.