UK - Council and European Election

[Gandalf]

My main point in a non-lucid form was simply that we all have strategies for surviving in a very unfair and harsh world. Many people invest in a wide variety of forms and in the UK property ownership (or mostly lifetime servitude to a bank) is seen as a particular mantra. Now I could simply attack anyone who owns property and say that is a terribly immoral thing considering that property goes up in value at a pace outstripping wages and thus in the long run means that young people are excluded from such a market. An average person for instance is never going to own a home in London. However, my point is simply that hedging ones interests and protecting themselves should never be the basis of a personal attack which is what you do sometimes against me. Like any sensible person, I hedge my interests in a variety of forms (crypto currencies are my latest interest). The only thing I don't invest in is property, but I should. It would be strange for me to say to ordinary people 'You own some shares! You own a house! You have a savings account! You have several credit cards! You own Bitcoin! You are sinister!' It's just weird.

On the topic of homes I don't mind people having homes to live in. Of course everyone deserves one. Where I am against property ownership though is when one buys just to rent out as I believe that leads to inequality and we see it today with so many owning multiple properties and many young people renting at rates almost akin to a mortgage payment except they simply cannot afford the deposit. That is neither here nor there though.

I think Help to Buy is terrible scheme and nobody that takes on a mortgage of half a million pounds should really need any help. It is a scheme that is designed to ingratiate Cameron's friends and win him votes if he can keep it going another year or two. It is a terrible scheme. Now, I could understand a policy to bring down housing costs to help young people, but I cannot understand this particular scheme. As soon as interest rates go up you are putting a lot of money on the government books and the nation is broke already. Just as RBS is facing 100bn in a black hole of debt, government backing mortgages is kamikaze and you know the logistics. You don't fix a country with a housing bubble in a time of incredible inequality. It is irresponsibility, and despite being such an enemy, I don't want the consequences to occur, but it is very predictable.

The reason I have to resign as head of my party is because of my strange offer to buy half a country and after having checked my piggy bank is just not possible. I am able to do things like buy a new Playstation game and take short trips overseas, but the UK is really beyond my reach. In fact, it's one of the reasons I don't come home as it bankrupts me each time. Just flying there is so so expensive. It could really do with 25 years of recession like Japan just to make it normal in terms of costs. Horribly expensive. It's one of the main reasons I will probably never come back. It is not a hatred or being the enemy. It is simply that what I do well means being elsewhere and like millions of other young people, I cannot afford to stay there. I can't pay 22.5% VAT every time I buy something and be independent and pay council taxes and the bills and run a car and so on. Neither can most British people. Life is cheaper and easier elsewhere and a little bit less communist, despite such gross inequality.

I am sorry Walrus and Ryanman. I have resigned as leader as I know I cannot buy nation states. I am not like America/Britain and their purchase of the Ukraine. I know silliness when I see it. I am happy to run in a re-election campaign, but as things stand I have lost confidence in myself.

[Gandalf]

I will make one further point as non-leader. Listening to several Farage interviews recently, I actually agree with him on a lot of issues. He seems to be awake, doesn't have his head in the sand, and speaks a LOT more sense than the mainstream parties. They live in clouds, they don't interview outside of home turf. They are frauds. Farage will interview anywhere and seems to be the real deal. He is like many of us. Sure, you won't agree on everything, but for me, as a none left or right person, he speaks sense. I had always assumed UKIP to be a 2 point party, but Farage makes a lot of sense covering a wide spectrum. Several years ago he called Obama a dangerous man, for instance. Now would any British politician say that? No, of course not. Farage speaks to ordinary people. We ALL know Obama is a dangerous man. We all know that the EU is a new Soviet Union in the making. So why does nobody else stand up for it? Because they are bought and paid for.

Farage really wants to make a difference and won't sell out. Milliband who doesn't know how much he spends on shopping? Cameron with a foreign Napalese nanny? Or Farage with a foreign wife, but who knows the score with immigration and isn't a lifetime politician. I think UKIP is valid and I will try to vote for them. It is correct, moral, and just. I have nothing in common with the other parties.