I am predicting a messy election. Not sure what is going to happen. It seems that the mood of the people is such that they will not support the top two contenders. Lib' Dem' did a party broadcast recently, telling us that it's ok because the top earners will be more heavily taxed to pay for everything, because that's fair. Only it isn't fair, is it? If we all paid a blanket 20% tax the top earners would already be paying more. To be successful and pay a higher percentage is not fair, and never was. The conservatives don't seem radical enough, either.

What I would like to see is a new party, call them rationalists, who would undertake sweeping change of the underlying attitudes that form policy and law. Cut the red tape, eliminate taxes, cut back all government departments so that government is small and cheap.

Just as an example, let's take tax. There are some that cost as much to administer as they raise, whose only purpose is to take money off the people and put it in the pockets of the civil servants who take it. Madness. Income Tax is the cheapest to administer, so everything should be handled through that, including benefits. Positive or minus income, above a certain amount taxed at a flat rate for all, below a certain amount paid from the pot. Cheap, simple, easy.

Real change, change you can believe in, we have been promised before. But it never happens.

Forced to predict, I would guess at a weak conservative government and a lot of new MP's from all other parties APART from labour, it would be fine to believe that we will see NO labour MP's at all but I doubt it. Still, I do believe there will be very few.