Nick Cleggs position in this coalition government has been tenuous at best right from the very beginning.

He must be really worried now after his parties performance in last weeks elections.

While David Cameron is secretly dancing with glee the Labour party is making suggestions that the Liberal Democrats step down from this government and join them to fight the Conservatives. If that doesn’t sound like an admission that they cannot beat the Conservatives then I don’t know what does.

Surely Nick Clegg will stay where he is. The alternative is obscurity, to join the ranks of the also-rans.

The British Electorate sounded a resounding “NO” to the Alternative Vote. They voted two to one against the AV and therefore to retain the “first past the post” system that has been in place for the last couple of hundred years.

That was the common sense vote. The only people who would vote for the AV are probably members of the also ran parties. Parties that are so desperate to get into power that they are prepared to gamble that they might win a vote on people’s 2nd choices.

Who on earth would want to be governed by a 2nd choice government ?

My wife and I have been up to the local community centre and scribed our X’s.

Mind you, we could be voting for almost anything and anyone since we seem to be in a canvassing wilderness. Our house is occupied pretty much seven days a week yet nobody has managed to catch us in. Nobody has tried to secure our votes for the local elections. I don’t believe we have had any pamphlets dropped through our letter box.

And as for the “Alternative Vote”, well its a similar thing. If I hadn’t taken the time to look this up on the web I wouldn’t be any the wiser. My wife didn’t even know that we were being ask to make such a momentous decision. I believe that the government has actually failed to make it clear to the country as a whole what the voting options are really about. Apparently we should have had a booklet explaining the Alternative Vote and how it works. But no, nothing, nada, not a thing.

Seems to me the more we become connected the less we get to know.

After many years of campaigning a memorial is going to be created to remember those of Bomber Command who lost their lives.

Some 55,573 bomber crew gave their lives in the defense of this country during World War II and only now is a permanent memorial being created.

Today the foundation stone was laid for the memorial which is to be built in Green Park, central London. It is planned to be completed by May 2012.

In my view this is long overdue especially when you consider the many memorials to other branches of our armed forces.