THE CLOCK IS TICKING

IT'S been a bit of a bad Holy week and Easter weekend for the Pope. If you’re Gordon Brown it’s not been fantastic either (not to draw to many comparisons between the two very different situations). Yesterday the Sunday Times ran with the story, that according to a very recent poll Cameron’s Conservatives have pulled away from Labour with a 10-point lead. Meaning if repeated in the polls, the Conservatives would have a big enough majority to form Government. Not too great for Labour then.

Tomorrow, Gordon Brown is ‘’expected to go to Buckingham Palace to get the Queen’s permission to dissolve parliament and call an election. With possibly just hours to go until the political parties swing into full election mode, and after launching a poster attacking Cameron this weekend – which can only be described as backfiring like the exhaust of a poorly maintained 80’s Audi Quattro, Brown must be getting very jittery. He is surely in for a sleepless night, possibly wishing he could postpone the election like he did two autumns ago. Though this time there really is no escape for him.

The build up to this election has been never ending the parties have been at it since New Year. The country lost a lot of faith in this parliament and MPs, after last year’s expenses scandal. There was a call for change then. Not just a change in leadership though, a change in the style of Politics. But it seems as though a leopard never changes its spots, anyone got an MP for hire – err I mean cab for hire? This Parliament will be remembered for the crumbling duck house it is and the stinky moat of horse manure that surrounds it for many years to come.

As we get closer to the election and the chance for the country to decide, I am left with a feeling, a very negative feeling - is the public really interested in this election? Does anyone outside the Westminster bubble have much interest in the outcome? Can anyone tell the difference between the Tories and Labour or has our politics been too damaged? And what the hell are their policies, if they have any that is? All I know is that at such a financially difficult time this country needs serious, honest politics with an election campaign fought in a truthful and rational way. But it seems very clear that when the election is called it’s going to be a dirty, tit for tat fight till the very end.