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5th February 2007

Sensible here, dodgy punk guitarist and occasional politician. Blimey, that sounds a bit ropey that doesn't it... no, not the 'dodgy guitarist' bit - I mean calling oneself a politician. In this day and age that's gotta be one of the dirtiest jobs going what with cash for peerages, and all the rest of it. And just what WAS the reason I decided to throw my hat into the ring with all these ghastly liars and frauds in the first place I hear you ask?

Well, it's not going to come as a major surprise I'd imagine if I tell you it was the Iraq war that done it.... I'll tell you ladies and gents that it is a bloody good job there were no bricks handy whenever Mr Bliar appeared on TV telling the nation that we were duty bound to attack Iraq because they were about to launch 'weapons of mass destruction' in 45 minutes and all the other crap lies cobbled together from dubious sources that he spouted off in the run up to this illegal war. Me and my kids were on all those huge London marches, including the one comprised of 2 million angry people - all of us attempting to halt Bliars war machine - all of which was ignored of course and the rest, unfortunately is history. I do, however add my voice very much to the opinion that says Blair, Straw, Hoon and a few other guilty parties should most definitely end up in a court of law to face charges of warcrimes sometime... and the sooner the better to stop anything like this happening again.

But how has New Labour performed apart from this? Well, some good and some bad if you ask me.... I mean, they have TRIED to keep the NHS, schools and other public services going with varied degrees of success but with the vast amount of cash being hoovered out of the public purse by Iraq it is all too obvious the decline in these areas. I visited a relative in hospital last week and it looked pretty rough it has to be said - what with paint peeling off the walls and shoddy old furniture and clutter everywhere. The staff work miracles every day in these sort of run down environments but they and the patients deserve better conditions, and I wonder what things could look like if all the billions we spent on Iraq had gone on the Health Service instead?

So when I think about these things the obvious solution is to cut back military spending drastically and redistribute all the liberated cash to other, more humanitarian departments of the government - although, incredibly I have heard  the exact opposite point of view put over on the odd phone in programme by some daft ex-officer type or other.

And the prisons crisis is another area where some radical rethinking is necessary so we can stop the lunacy of locking up everyone convicted of any crime regardless of the necessity of penal servitude when rehabilitation would be better facilitated by alternative forms of sentencing. Then there's global warming, stealth taxes, CCTV, car crime, student debt, spam emails, obesity and loads other things like the desperate need for an modern integrated transport system in this country to be thinking about.

If parliament cannot see these things need re-thinking then we shall just have to bring it to their attention - one way or another! And Blah! to the lot of them say I.... blinkered fools, mainly intent feathering their own nests or so it seems to me - the greedy, useless pillocks!

And this is where the Blah! Party comes in as WE are the true party of the people - as witnessed by our unique policy making methods.....ie, YOU lot via your texts and emails. And they have been an absolute revelation over the last few months, which will be resulting in a swanky new manifesto being launched sometime soon, which I am very much looking forward to.

And not just politics either - all aspects of life in this funny old country are up for discussion here in the Blah! Party. Whatever winds you up, makes your blood boil, etc - let's hear about it and start some campaigning / tub thumping whatever so that the guilty parties (Endemol, creators of Big Brother or the FA, financiers of Sven Goran Errikson) start to get the message..... we will not put up with this patent tosh! Get it together you vile buffoons!

Thanks to all those of you who have got involved in some shape or form... it's all been good positive stuff and as the membership rises and rises who can say what we might not achieve in the future.

All the best,
Captain Sensible.