Enough of the old

So an election has been announced! Well, whoopee, doopee, do.  I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am ready to rent my garments, and go around in ashes and sackcloth.  There are NO real choices!

In the red corner, we have Gordon Brown, a heavyweight English bulldog, who staid, steady and steadily out of touch.  In the blue corner we have David Cameron, a man who seems like a Jack Russell in comparison – a bit of a yapper whose bark seems to convey nothing of substance.  Finally, the Liberal Democrats who have exactly what to say exactly?

We desperately need someone new, someone with big new ideas ready to unite the country against apathy.  This could be the biggest election voted by the fewest people which is just absurd! We need an English Barack Obama; someone to lead, unite and bring together the disparate elements of this country.  Someone whose view is to unify, rather than to divide.

But who?

What alternative?

For the first time, this dyed in the wool tory is thinking of voting Social Democrat.  Take education for example.  Brown offers academies and the slow, gradual dissolution of the State school system.  What does Cameron’s Britain offer? Ah – almost the same thing, but dressed in different clothes. But according to the Conservatives, religious groups or even groups of parents will be much safer hands than skilled, trained professionals.

Why is there no alternative? Why does no one have the courage to look at what this country really needs? Why not dissolve the private schools and disseminate the expertise throughout the State school system? If there were no private schools, then the large fussy minority would send their children to the local school, and would complain about the shoddy service, the lack of service culture, and the unionised moaning that is the lot of the average State school.  That would get them moving!

Is it just me?