I think that the UK needs to accept a reduced role in the world and stop living in the past. Accept it isn't what it was. Like the way we're still so patronising towards foreigners, the little englanders everywhere, whether commenting on football, being tourist cocks or even just people at my office, automatically assuming that we've a divine right to be number 1 all the time. That attitude is holding us back. Why can't we just be comfortable as a middle-ranking nation like neighbours like the scandinavians or the Dutch whose people do on the whole seem a lot more at ease with each other and chilled about lifestyles and their place in the world. But the political system just reinforces the class system and it is all just anachronistic bull$hit, which is why I think people are receptive to Clegg, because even though his politics are flaky and his team quite lightweight, voters are so desperate for something, anything new, not tied in with corrupt interests. And so it is quickly dawning on the others that a lot of people could well take the plunge and gamble on him, as a means of bringing in a fairer system, starting off with a form of PR, which might actually reflect the popular vote! Seems to me a weird election so far, as there is no obvious front runner, no obvious public enthusiam for anyone, only that people are pissed off with what we've got. There doesn't seem to be a running theme, and the media seem a bit lost too, but would you be ready to bet on the final result now? fat chance!
