Britain is a nation in denial and voters are just as deluded as the PM (US too?)

Almost all election campaigns are auctions of promises, though it suits some party leaders to try to make them beauty contests. We are seven weeks from Britain's likely polling day, but the style of the contest is plain.

.......................................................... This week, I met an U.S. political scientist who has just written a book about why and when politicians lie.

One of his conclusions is that national leaders seldom don Pinocchio noses in international negotiations, because they know they can't get away with doing so.

I suggest that this is in considerable measure our own fault. Too many of us seek remedies for disagreeable problems by burying our heads under the bedclothes.

Cameron and Brown are sort of like McCain and Obama.

One is just a slow motion version of the other.

Higher taxes, bigger government and less freedom are a certainty with either Conservatives or Labour.

Cameron believes the climate change myth for example.

Cameron’s Tories have been demonizing alcohol lately proposing new taxes on it to fund the costs of all the “ills” it causes.

Cameron’s Tories have gone after booze like politicians have gone after cigarettes in this country.

A third party of ex-Tories called the United Kingdom Independence Party has emerged to offer its ideas.

Their conference is going on this weekend.

Their leader, Lord Pearson, spoke yesterday and said:

“So whatever the doubts about a hung Parliament, a Conservative victory would be an absolutely certain disaster, just as bad as Labour. It would be the final extinction of what millions of our forbearers have died for over hundreds of years....We must not let it happen.”

UKIP also has in its ranks Lord Monckton, who has been an outspoken opponent of the climate change mythology.

For more about this party and its issues....

http://www.ukip.org/

Here is the head of the UKIP party explaining the Communist takeover of the EU, at the EU Parliment. Quite a barn-burner. He is shouted down by the rest of the parliment.

You Tube Video of Nigel Farage

There is also the BNP, which has stopping and reversing immigration as it's major policy focus.

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