Tomorrow we will know which leader of the three main parties will be our new master after the greatest battle in modern times to save Britain's soul. This is the most important election in our history. It is the duty of all of us to go out and vote and tell the three main parties what we think and what we want. They bribe us like naughty children with that word "change" bandied about like free sweets to get us to do what they want. In truth, however, nothing will change under any of them or they will seek the kind of change that we don't want.
Remember Tony Bliar and the change he gave us? War in the Middle East, a huge public sector workforce that spies on and monitors its citizens, poor people poorer, rich people greedier, traditional British pubs closing by the thousands every year. A vote for Labour is nothing short of treason. If that party wins again, Britain will be ruined, in tatters, and there will be nothing left to save. It is a party that cares not for its people but for itself. We don't want more of that from Bliar's underdog Brown who is happy to dismiss anyone who doesn't share his megalomaniac view like Gillian Duffy, the woman he branded a bigot for daring to question him about her concerns on immigration and the cost of education.
Politicians will have been promising you the earth to get your vote. They have listened to your concerns. When they are elected, however, they will forget everything you said and the oppression will begin again. Cameron's Tories don't offer you anything different. If you think you're going to get the good ole Cons of Thatcher's 1980s, think again. Cameron is not Tory in the traditional sense. He is what he says he is - the Heir to Bliar. What does it matter if Blue Labour or NuLabour dishes out more of the same. Cameron need do only two things that will get the British electorate 100% behind him and give him the landslide he wants. He must promise us a vote on EU membership and he must reintroduce choice on the smoking ban for struggling pub landlords who own their own property and should have the right to set their own smoking policies. He won't do it because he is a coward, scared of taking on the EU, frightened of Quangos like Action on Smoking and Health and the Smoke Free org which rules with an iron fist over British choice from the safety of their central office in Brussels. Cameron, frankly, doesn't care about Britain, her independence, her culture or her proud sovereign history. Along with Nick Clegg, he would put the EU's priorities before our own whether the EU policies are good for Britain or not.
Nick Clegg, the current darling of British politics, would be disastrous for us. He is fake and knows how to perform having studied at stage school but don't be fooled. He is false. We haven't seen the real man yet. What we know of him is that he would take us further into the belly of the EU beast. Five more years of that, when we could still stop the Lisbon Treaty which has not yet been ratified if he gave us choice, and Britain will be no more. There will be no point in even having another election in future. Westminster under EU rule will be about as effective as a parish council.
The BNP is no answer. They have policies which would take us back 100 years. They are bigots. They lump people into groups and then judge and condemn them according to their own twisted ideology. A Britain under the BNP would be terrifying. They've promised the earth while campaigning and they lie to fool the electorate. Their election address, for example, in Louth and Horncastle says UKIP is for immigration when this is plainly not true. UKIP is for the immigrant but against uncontrolled immigration on the grounds of space not race.
The only way to gain control back from these puppet masters is to ensure we get a hung parliament. Only then can we as a nation decide what sort of modern voting system we want. Currently, it matters not whether you vote Lib/Lab/or Con - the Government will still wins and it still won't listen. It will stuff its own pockets with our cash, put it's highly paid and wasteful quangos between the people and the services they need, and it will not give a damn what the people think. We have no economy other than public service jobs. Business is strangled and stifled with red tape, high taxes, and health and safety over regulation. Entrepreneurship is frowned upon, and we have no manufacturing base. We have the illusion of an economy in the huge amount of public sector jobs that indicate personal wealth. We raise taxes to pay public service workers who go shopping, buy houses and go on holidays. That is the biggest part of our economy.
The only real and meaningful change can come if we the people take control and get out there and use that vote we only get every five years.A pathy is the enemy of democracy and the main parties depend on it for their return to power. If you want things to stay the same, the answer is simple - don't vote or just put your cross where you put it last time. If you want real and meaningful change in the true sense of the word, then vote with your heart. Find that party that best suits your beliefs and give it your vote no matter how big or how small. There is nothing to lose and everything to gain. If you can't choose between them, then vote with your spleen against the worst Labour Government this country has ever seen. And don't be scared into voting for a party because of the fear factor which the main three have been using to terrify you into submission.
My party is UKIP because it is the only party that speaks from the heart and listens to the people it serves. It was born from a desire to give the British people a say on their own future in the EU and it is the most democratic of the lot. It has grown and evolved into a party that can match the others for the number of candidates standing for the election. It needs only voter support. It wants to return power to you the people, to make your own decisions at both local and national level. It has some great policies for Britain and her people. It's candidates are both humble and expert in varying fields. It is worthy of support.
In Louth and Horncastle, most people expect Tory Sir Peter Tapsell to win, despite the amount of times I've heard people say they don't want him back. At 80 he is outdated, he lives in an ivory tower, wrapped in an olde English bubble of a stately home, and he is there for his own needs. His biggest motivator in this election is to be re-elected so that he can become Father of the House as the longest serving member of Parliament. There have been calls for local hustings in the constituency so that local people can see what is on offer, but Sir Peter doesn't see the point. He's said he debated on one BBC local radio show. He doesn't need to debate further. As a long standing sitting MP, he says people know what he is about. True, indeed, but the electorate hasn't been given a proper chance to browse other goods in the shop.
If I was elected to serve as the member for Louth and Horncastle, then I would be your servant. I would work for you. You tell me your priorities and they become mine. I am not in this for myself. I have stuck my head above the parapet because I truly believe that it is time for Parliament to become a real representative body for the people. No matter where you live, you can make it yours too. Vote UKIP tomorrow and take the first steps to getting Britain's dignity back.
If we wake up to yet another five years of Labour - the absolute worst result there could be - then the only hope is emigration. If we can't afford to run away to a more tolerant and less oppressive country - like Zimbabwe, for example - then we might as well all take a rope to the bottom of garden and hang ourselves.
This may well be the last blog post I ever write. Those of you who know me, know that the unjust smoking ban, and the ill-treatment and exclusion of smokers, is what brought me into politics. At the beginning of the year, when we were all so full of hope that we had this one chance to make our feelings known, people began to chat and analyse which party they should vote for. To me the choice was clear. UKIP stands up for choice and it is not ashamed to stand up for smokers. Smokers, and others concerned about the erosion of civil liberties, didn't see it the same way. They somehow have this false belief that if they vote Tory, then Dave will miraculously drop the false act and become the free marketeer we expect from a Conservative.It won't happen. What will happen instead is that the smoking ban will be brushed under the carpet. Personal choice will become more limited, and that wall that came down in Eastern Europe will go up again metaphorically and surround us all in the EUSSR.
12 million smokers' votes for UKIP would have gone a very long way to tell the three main parties that a line has been crossed and we, the people, want our lives back. Too many of those 12 million don't care. That is why after this election, the smoking ban fight will be over. We will have let ourselves down and demolished any hope for freedom of choice for the next generation.