UK Election - Meet the new boss

So Gollum's uglier brother has finally left the house with London's most photographed front door and scampered back North of the Border to lick his wounds. To see him give his cringe inducing speech on the doorstep of number ten was painful in the extreme and although I feel a little sorry for him it is only because I know how awful moving house can be. During his speech Mrs B looked like she had consumed vast quantities of Valium. She stood there with a vacant look that was made all the more scary by her eyes that darted every which way, like a rabbit caught in the glare of headlights. Bye bye Gordon it was nice to see how your party stood by you after you screwed up the election for them.

The worrying thing for Labour party supporters is who takes over as leader. Say what you want about Tony Blair he dragged Labour in to the modern world, but the so called 'New Labour' has been set back years by Gordon Brown's mishandling of the economy and iffy leadership qualities. The vampires and werewolves are coming out of the shadows ready to exert their own type of evil master at the helm. The problem is that whoever they decide is up to the job must be a strong charismatic person, which discounts most current MPs and just leaves some of the most untrustworthy self-serving bar-stewards in politics. Whoever they choose I think we will see a change that makes Labour either more new and middle of the road or drags them back to their Socialist roots. Their supporters need to think very carefully if they want their party re-elected again. With hindsight it is so easy to see the mistakes all the parties have made with their choice of leaders over the years.

Unlike most people I speak to I am quite positive that the alliance between the Tories and the Lib/Dems can work, only time of course will tell. Let me explain... although I have not had access or even done an Internet search for what is in the document that David Cameron and Nick Clegg signed I believe it contains the gems of what could be a brave new world for British politics. I have like most people seen snippets in the newspapers and I listened to extracts from it during a radio interview with Clegg and it all seemed to make sense. What surprised me even more was that Nick Clegg sounded like he sincerely believed what he was saying and I cannot remember hearing that level sincerity from a politician ever. It appeared that the two had taken all the best bits from their policies and rejigged them to become better than the sum of their parts. In the past I thought that the Lib/Dems ideas for electoral reform were totally unworkable, while at the same time I felt that the attitude of most Tories (and Labourites) that reform was unnecessary was blinkered. From what I heard the two leaders have come up with a cunning plan. They now just have to sell it to their respective parties and the public. I believe it goes a massive way to restoring the faith of the British public in Parliament and politicians.

At what one of the newspapers called 'The Great No.10 Love-In' David Cameron and Nick Clegg stood side by side to answer questions from the press. Laughs were a penny a dozen as the new Prime Minister was reminded he called his new Deputy Prime Minister a "Political Joke" during the election. Strange how such bitter rivals have become such bosom, bosom friends in such a short time. A week is a long time in politics and one has to wonder how long this can last. There are without doubt hard times and hard decisions ahead, but if these two can find enough common ground and see their way to doing what is the best for the country while putting aside their differences there is hope. If what I suspect is in that document from the snippets I heard we might just see changes for the better but they will rock the established order of things like Motorhead at a church fete. Bring it on, I say, life is too short for regrets.

The bitter pill will be increased taxes and however hard that is to swallow the blame can only be placed firmly on the departing PM and his cabinet who acted like so many of their public and went mad with the credit card leaving us billions in debt. What supporters of all parties need to realise that these taxes were coming in some form or another whoever was in power. I would hope there will be at least a honeymoon period where the press stop twisting and misquoting everything and let this strange pact prove it can work.

There is an ancient Chinese curse that says "May you have an interesting life"; well whatever happens it will be interesting, even if the Right Honourable Member for Dudding on Thames does sleep through the whole debate. I am sure Mr Brown will have an interesting life with his £184,000 pension and a whole rack of book deals as a reward for ruining the economy. It should be fun though as everyone digs out those old speeches and finds all those things that the politicians said that they would never support but are now proposing, they will hate YouTube shortly.