What are you thinking right now?

[Minty]

Game Of Thrones - one of these days I WILL attempt to watch it.

From the Tories HQ this morning:

"In recent months and weeks, this party has made a number of statements and allegations about the United Kingdom Independent Party. We have suggested that Ukip was a collection of clowns, a party largely made up of fruitcakes, racists and other undesireables. We have suggested that a vote for Ukip denoted either a defective mind or an incoherent and childish anger at the world.

"In the light of new information recently received [yeah, the Council Council election results!], we now realise that those statements were wholly without merit or foundation and we withdraw them with immediate effect and undertake never to repeat them. Far from being a bunch of swivel-eyed nut-jobs, we now acknowledge that Ukip and its adherents are expressing legitimate concerns about various important aspects of public policy."

It's this sort of abrupt about-turn that frightens me most regarding the people we have currently in power - their willingness to complete change face the millisecond after getting thumped at the ballot box. Had they listened to voters in the first place - what's meant to be their jobs - it wouldn't have happened.

Instead, it's an endless cycle of being patted on the head & told "we know what's best for you" - meaning whatever's best for themselves & their rich friends, until losing people's trust so completely they are willing to take a chance on whatever mob orator has the best outside chance of pulling a shock result.

A decade ago, had you stuck a quid on the SNP have a majority in the Scottish Parliament; the Democratic Unionists running NI with Sinn Fein; the BNP, Greens & UKIP all having county council & European Parliament seats; & someone winning two separate mainland Parliamentary seats using scarcely concealed anti-semitism (George Galloway) you'd be walking away this morning a multi-millionaire.

It leaves me with a disturbing feeling not so much of what has come to pass, but of the political changes in the UK that may yet be.