Hung Parliments, first the UK, now it looks like Oz!

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. We've got a Conservative PM backed by a Lib Dem deputy and they're introducing a load of measures whose conception and initiation was the work of the Labour regime. What's to choose?

Best example for me is David Freud, a banker who the Labour govt brought in to advise on the welfare system. He began, by his own admission, with no prior knowledge of the systems involved... spent two weeks 'learning' about supposedly the entire system and writing a report, then spouted a load of wildly inaccurate information to the papers (in some cases based on benefits which no longer existed) in an informal interview which was taken as official truth. Even people who dislike the welfare system would surely rather have a properly informed expert spending a little bit more time considering the issue. Then, when it became apparent that Labour would not win the election, he jumped ship to the Conservatives to carry on pumping exactly the same half-baked misinformed ideas. Where's the difference?

To be honest I'm at a stage where I only vote to do my bit to prevent the BNP getting elected. I know plenty of other people who won't vote at all because they think it means they're 'endorsing' the actions and ideology of whichever party they choose. It's depressing.

It may be just a coincidence that OZ is also going the hung parliament route. I personally don't believe that though. It's too convenient. Hung parliaments allow blame and responsibility to be diluted and afterwards the public will have no one left to blame but themselves. The "meet the new boss" quote applies perfectly imo. Every western nation rolling out the same raft of austerity measures, the same bailouts and stimulus packages and the IMF spreading its cancerous one world single currency agenda behind the scenes. I'm personally tired of the "conspiracy theory" label. I think it's a psyops targeted word that's been carefully debunked by the media propaganda machine in order to divert attention from a very important fact: most conspiracies are in fact based upon fact. "Coincidence Theory" would more accurately describe the defense against conspiracy because an incredible amount of them always seem to occur whenever a conspiracy rears its head.

After spending the better part of two decades with no television, sourcing my news and information from independent news sources and generally attempting to remain informed - I can only see method in the madness. I don't see coincidence at all. I've studied my history and I see it repeating itself once again. My greatest hope is that enough people will wake up before it's too late because this time the wheel of time is bringing round the most technologically advanced form of oppression this world has ever seen. Hitler and co. only dreamed of what's on offer this time around :-(

The bit that's really grinding my gears is that there's no realistic opposition. The Conservatives are being Conservatives, no surprises there, they are doing what Conservatives do and no one expected anything else. But Labour can't protest about the cuts they started, and anything they do attempt to protest can be batted away with "you got us into this mess". The Lib Dems, who might have been able to make a credible Opposition, are instead trying to pretend that they can change the Conservative party from within, possibly by making the tea and crumpets for the bigger boys.

There *has* to be an opposition, shouting loudly and obliging the ruling power to justify their position in the public arena. Otherwise you've just got a powerful few doing whatever they like.

Mary I agree about the need for a viable opposition. However - look what just happened to the Tea Party in America. I've never seen a movement so effectively and quickly hijacked in my life. All they ever wanted was Obama/Soetoro's birth certificate and an end to big gov and what's happened? They've been sucked into the Republican conservative propaganda machine (at least as its reported on the news).

Unfortunately the pyramid structure so beloved of secret societies and political structures serves two purposes. It keeps real power in the hands of the few while at the same time allowing any threatening organizations to be easily hijacked and replaced with puppet regimes. Take the Tea Party example again. Now that peeps like Glen Beck and Alaska's soccer mom have moved in (both arch republicans) any real threat of disruption is neutralized and we get to meet the boss one more time :-(

Until the plebs have access to the propaganda rags and boxes they'll continue to be fed lies and rubbish and to believe in the current paradigm and never see the fact that all sides are spun from the same very few sources.

Left, right and middle all serve the same international banking cartels. Always have and always will. Politics is theatre.