A political menu with nothing you fancy

The tedium of this General Election is breathtaking. It reminds me of when you look through the menu in a restaurant and find nothing there that you really want to eat and when you look at what is coming out of the kitchen it all looks a bit old and tired but you have to eat there and the waiter is waiting for your order.

It strikes me that people will be voting for what candidates don't represent - he or she is not the lying Scotsman, or smarmy Clegg or posh Dave or whatever rather than what the parties are promising to do for us. Not that a politician's promise is worth a snowball in a furnace.

The problem with a hung Parliament (unless it involves lots of rope in which case it would be a good thing) is that this whole election jamboree is going to be running again sooner rather than later when they all fall out and chuck their expenses receipts out of the party prams.

And the demands of the LibDems on promises on proportional representation before they will side with anyone in a sort of political whoring have their own dangers. It would help them and parties with plenty of candidates in every election but full PR would be the end of real independents.

No Kidderminster doctors or local candidates would ever manage enough votes to win a seat campaigning on local issues. It would just be the big three and larger minority parties with MPs allocated in the order they are on the party list. And of course the likes of the BNP would probably manage a few seats under a PR system as would UKIP. Local democracy and representation would be dead. Votes would be for the party with 1984 coming 30 years too late.

And MPs would be much more concerned with keeping or improving their place on the party list than looking after constituents while the parties would spend all their time doing dodgy deals with any bunch of nutters who could keep them in power.

Meanwhile the Scottish Numpty Party are still trying to muscle in on the last televised leadership debate as if anyone in the rest of Britain cares they exist. It is telling they have lodged their case at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, a Scottish court administering Scottish law. They have their own Parliament, own law, own currency and own powers - please someone give them their own country as well so we can be rid of the lot of them.