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TOPIC: Too Clever By Half
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Too Clever By Half 13 Years, 12 Months ago
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Well actually it's by me. Half has its place but not if someone else is buying the round.
As this little farce the nation is currently embroiled in drags pointlessly into its fifth day I can't help musing on a few matters arising today, probably small but, I believe, significant when all taken together.
Firstly let's look at the Tories, currently squealing about the unfairness of it all. It's clear that Clegg is not playing with a straight bat, and the situation puts me in mind of the 32/33 test series and that redoubtable Scot Douglas Jardine. Both he and Clegg played with one very real aim, to, in those fabled words, "strive, to seek, to find and not to yield". Clegg is thinking of the long game {Tennyson was, I guess, more interested in the Booker than the Ashes} and wants to be very much on the winning team. Who can blame him? And both Clegg and Jardine have played the game, applying not the spirit but the rules. History will judge both either as great men or those who stooped to conquer. Clegg, like Jardine , is only doing his job in the best way he can think of. And if he's being just a little underhanded what on Earth did anyone expect? The Liberal Democrats have long been known as hard fighters on the ground. Parliamentarians should really know this better than most.
The Tories might have achieved a more resounding result had they actually employed an election campaign rather than leaning altogether too heavily on the focus on Cameron and the desire - shared with and by the public - to turn the whole event into a travesty. This is what happens when you decide that The X Factor is a good model on which to build a country's legislature.
The Public, while prostrating themselves in front of their TVs to lap up the steady diet of soap operas and daytime pap which is their daily cultural intake and applying it to how they would like to be governed are equally to blame. The fact that almost half of them had no clue as to how they were going to vote as late as last Wednesday should really give them a clue as to exactly why they have little to complain about. Apparently they are, nonetheless, doing just that in their thousands this morning according to BBC sources. This is the reward of indolence.
Those oh, so clever people who decided that what they really should do with it was vote "tactically" have also certainly played their part in the delivery of this less than certain scenario. Had they voted for something rather than against something else they might have had a result. I suspect that many of the complainers today voted in this way. Not, perhaps, so clever now.
Lastly, what is everyone so surprised about?
This is exactly what had been hotly trailed for weeks beforehand. Yet here we are without a clue as to what's going to happen next. If you remember, I wrote a short while ago that we get the Government we deserve. I suspect I'm about to be proven correct.
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