Gimmicks and PR

One of the things I have noticed with politics nowadays is that so many of our politicans are more concerned with style over substance. Under New Labour and Tony Blair this took on a new level of professionalism, Tony Blair even employed a spin doctor and in some ways he was just as powerful as the Prime Minister himself. When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister he followed Tony Blairs example and David Cameron has carried on were New Labour left off. The unfortunate thing in all of this is that so many people have got so used to this sort of politics they think nothing of it.

David Cameron has continued to offer; vapid, vacuous, shallow displays on incinserity since becoming Prime Minister; his most recent example was his sycophantic behaviour towards Barack Obama.

What concerns me most is that when you look at our country you will very quickly realise that there are a lot of very important issues that need to be dealt, but our Prime Minister does not seem to be dealing with it.

The first issue that David Cameron needs to deal with is the war in Libya, our involvement in this war is complete folly. You would have thought that he would have learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, but no, we were told it was going to cost tens of millions but it is expected to cost us over a £1 billion. On top of this, what are we going to do if and when Gaddafi is removed? What will happen to that country? Will it decend into tribal war? And if it does, surely, because we have been instumental in removing him we will have a duty to get involved in restoring some sort of order, and that of course will mean putting troops on the ground. This could then lead us into another Iraq. It does not bear thinking about!

The next issue is our level of debt; last month the government borrowed £10 billion and our economy is not growing. The Government is struggling to find a way out of this problem, with an ever increasing amount of regulation coming out of the EU (working time regulations, extra maternity and paternity leave and pay, to name just two), this is hampering business, so it cannot grow. The Government does not seem to realise the problem and seems to be hoping that something is going to change, but unless they doing something radical and quickly are problems will increase. I cannot see things changing, as long as we have a coaltition nothing much will change.

The simple fact is many of our politicians do not live in the real world, many have never known hardship, have never run their own business, and have come from privileged backgrounds (I am not against anyone from privileged backgrounds doing well, but I do believe many do not have a clue about the reality for normal people). The simple fact is our economy is struggling and something needs to be done.

On top of all this we have a continued problem with immigration. In the year up to last September, the figure for net migration (the difference between immigration and emigration) was 242,000. Because we are part of the EU we cannot do anything about this problem. If the Prime Minister was serious about this issue he would do something about it instead of issuing platitudes, but he is unlikely to do anything because he is in partnership with the Liberals and I think he is more concerned about remaining as Prime Minister and does not want to upset them.

The issue of mass immigration brings many problems, with so many people arriving in this country every week this brings many problems with our creaking infrastucture. With not enough; houses, school places, hospitals struggling to cope, with more vehicles on the road and a transport system fit to burst. If someting isn't done, and done soon I do not believe this can carry on and something has to give.

With these and other problems, we need a Prime Minister that is going to do something dramatic and radical, but I cannot see this happening. I trully believe that there needs to be a total change within the established parties. I know I am a member of UKIP and you could say that I am only saying this because of that, but something needs to change and we need some new blood at the top who aren't afraid of making decisions which will turn this country around. Unfortunately I cannot see this happening in the near future, so I can only see things getting worse.