Apart from the early years when I’d not long been granted the right to vote, I’ve not really attended the election pantomime in the United Kingdom for the past 40 years having reached the conclusion long ago that politics is a rigged game across the globe.

Generally speaking Labour or Conservative, Democrat or Republican the important issues in life are decided so far above their candidates’ pay grades that who carries the top job at Westminster or the White House is really insignificant with regard to humanity’s key decisions, as events in Gaza for the past 12 months have shown.

For most politicians being a “friend of Israel” is a very lucrative little sideline and that’s without the other bungs on offer from all the other pressure groups vying for favour. Integrity pays relatively poorly in politics, whereas iniquity means a nice little pot to splurge on a luxury car, an idyllic Caribbean getaway or a lifetime’s membership at Quo Vadis in Soho... FULL STORY