That’s right millions of people are changing their voting allegiances to the Liberal Democrats after Vince Cable and Nick Clegg’s fantastic performance at the Chancellors’ and Leaders’ debate. The tabloids have gone on the offensive, heaven forbid the public decide to vote for someone against the wishes of the tabloid press, manipulating and lying to the public in order to get their own way.

A recent Daily Mail article tries to first undermine the nature of the leaders’ debate and then undermines the public’s motives.

“There can be only one credible explanation for the utterly irrational outpouring of support for the Liberal Democrats after a mere 90 minutes of X Factor-style TV politics: the public, disgusted by the near moral bankruptcy of the last Parliament, is looking for revenge.”

Apparently the public aren’t smart enough to make rational decisions for themselves, no the only ‘utterly irrational’ reason anyone could want to vote for the Liberal Democrats according to the Daily Mail is out of revenge. The article reads a bit like a child complaining when it hasn’t got its own way. “But MUM, its not fair. The public don’t want to vote with me! They must be poo poo heads or something, that’s the only rational explanation.”

This kind of comment makes me sick, how fucking dare they! How can they get off telling us why we are choosing to support someone? Since when did “Daily Mail Comment”, I presume they couldn’t get a real person to say exactly what they wanted, get a hotline to the public consciousness and know each and every one of our motivations? Spin it how you like but you can’t hide the fact that the public didn’t turn their vote in some fit of pique, but after watching a debate in which only one of the leaders of the political parties seemed the right man for the job. The tabloids can fuck off for all the public seem to care about what they think.

The Daily Mail doesn’t stop there though, in its usual style it goes on to make shit up in order to defend its political alliances.

As this paper reveals today, Mr Clegg and many of his MPs have been some of the worst expenses offenders.

Now they are making quite a specific claim there, one that we can check. During the expenses scandal the Telegraph, who broke the story, wrote an article revealing the worst expenses offenders. According to them ten of the worst offenders were Labour and six were Conservative MPs, none of them were Liberal Democrats. None.

This fantastic graphic in the Guardian shows that although the Liberal Democrats expense claims were the highest of the parties on average, they also had to pay back the least suggesting that these claims were legitimate. In fact the average Conservative repayment was £4,227 more than DOUBLE the average Liberal Democrat repayment of £1,910 and nearly £1000 more than the average Labour repayment of £3,237. Now I am not great with numbers but even an idiot can see that it takes nothing short of a massive manipulation of the truth to imply that the Liberal Democrats were some of the worst expenses offenders.

This is the kind of tactics that we can expect to see across the tabloid newspapers in the coming weeks as they try to influence and lie to the public in order to get their own way. It is almost laughable that The Daily Mail accuses the BBC of having a “risible lack of objectivity” within the words of such a bias and manipulative article but nothing should surprise you when you are left in the hands of a tabloid hack. You have been warned.

I disagree fundamentally with the idea that one vote doesn’t count. Of course it fucking counts. The fact that you have a vote at all is what counts not the notion that 1 in a million is irrelevant. You aren’t 1 in a million you are 1 of thousands of other voters. You can’t look at it thinking what difference does one vote make because the question is irrelevant, the more people that vote for a particular party and what they represent the more the other parties will look at that and start to take note. EVEN if you vote for the losing party you have still had your say in the democratic process. It isn’t just about winning it is about putting your mark down as wanting things to be done a certain way and the more people that do that the more whoever is in charge has to listen.

Imagine if you took that attitude with what football team you supported. You don’t go to a Southend (or insert local club here) game and think what difference does it make if I turn up or if I show my support do you? I’ve never heard a fan say “Manchester United have millions of fans more what relevance do I have as a Southend supporter? I might as well not bother.”

Imagine if they did, what would happen? How many clubs would go out of business? What knock on effect that would have to the top teams who would suffer through a lack of competition?

Now imagine no competition in politics, people only voting for who they thought could win or not at all, not who they wanted to win. Imagine one party becoming so strong that there was no reasonable competition. Imagine the abuse of power that would lead to. Imagine the fucked up situation where a government thought it was so powerful that it could just do what the fuck it lies. Because that’s not far off what Labour has had these past few years and look where that got us. Fighting an illegal war and facing a future of David fucking Cameron at the helm. If that isn’t motivation enough to vote I don’t know what is.

That is what equates to a candidate for the Livonia Michigan City Council.

You know its the other seriously deranged people I feel sorry for, if you can get away with talking this level of crazy without seeing the man in white coats come banging on your door what else can you get away with in the U.S?

If the Conservatives take the expected victory at the next general election I for one won’t be celebrating. This latest comment from a member of their party may have been shunned by Cameron but he is still guilty of associating with racists. This all shows how pathetically ineffective the Liberal Democrats have become that they cannot front a serious challenge for power in the face of such competition. It was criminal that they did not elect Vince Cable as leader when they had the chance and they will pay the price for that for years to come.