New Election
The "New Election" result for IC president was a joy to behold; one could only dream about this kind of result happening in the national arena. Imagine it, the entire British electorate voting "New Election"- wishful thinking as this option is unavailable on national ballot papers. However the British public could still choose rebellion from the apparently amorphous, indistinguishable Labour and Conservative parties in favour of a party who at least have the honesty to give us a defined set of absolute promises of their plans for power.
This result would dynamically shatter the whole foundations of the Labour party, as well as totally obliterating the careers of Blair, Brown and Harman. Labour would have nowhere to turn, it would have sailed the tides of socialism, liberalism, and now left wing conservatism. Labour would be relegated to the political archives.
Meanwhile the bullying Conservative party whips, courtesy of Gorman, Howard and Portillo would grab that party by the horns (with the inevitable ousting of John Major) and veer towards the extreme right. They would embrace absolute extreme free market economics and nationalism. They would even have the disastrous, transient flirtation with fascism; alienating the prosperous ethnic business communities who Major has taken pains to woo. They would lose a significant percentage of their loyal business community, who accept total British co-operation in European integration as a painful necessity, if London is to become the financial centre of Europe.
Amongst others, the Liberal Democrats are at present attempting to force themselves into this mould, with their pledge of a 1p increase in income tax simultaneously destroying their electoral chances and marking them out as the one major party to offer a realistic, believable manifesto. At the same time, the Scots and Welsh Nationalists, and even Jimmy Goldsmith’s bunch of weirdos, are able to pick-up a multitude of voters, as their supporters can at least rest assured that they know what policies their vote is mandating. And although many people would claim that a vote which did not go to a Labour or Conservative candidate constitutes a pointless, worthless protest, surely last Tuesday night has taught us all that if the disenchanted and the downhearted band together, then the sum total of their feelings can (and will) be heard
