The Clegg Farage debate

We have just seen the second debate about whether we should be in Europe or not.
There is in this country what is called a Westminster Bubble a group of people who are isolated from the public in nearly every way.  Not only the politicians who continuously engage in the high school debate but also the bulk of the media commentators and pundits who refuse to acknowledge that there is a massive disillusionment with the political system and even the system we call democracy is at risk. The ordinary man and woman on the street has seen the Global Economy focus more and more power in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The agenda of the ideologues and the fund managers has little to do with the needs of society, (people at large) and slowly you see outright opposition through the only way left to them physical violence.
The debate tonight was not about violence.  We had, on the one hand, the 'political establishment' in the guise of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg with his establishment voice repeating ad nauseam the benefits of completely restructuring the way are lives are controlled and the opportunities that the new structure brings to the lives of ordinary people. On the other side, the maverick politician Nigel Farage who cuts to the chase and repeats the questions that the ordinary voter asks with his solutions.
Now you might not agree with his solutions but it is amazingly refreshing to hear some one articulate the things that are on ordinary voters minds, he appears to be one of us and far removed from the bland talking shop parliamentarian

The debate came to an end and the polls went out to a selected number of people who returned a resounding win for the maverick, Farage, by 70% of the vote to 30% for the Establishment. What was to me the most stomach churning sight of the evening was watching and listening to Danny Alexander the Deputy Chancellor of the Exchequer, repeating over and over what was obviously a pre scripted response, applauding his boss saying he thought that Clegg had won the debate and refusing to acknowledge that they had lost the popular opinion by a massive margin.
Talk about a head in the sand syndrome.          

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