So, we've got our General Election date, Thursday 6th May.
And once again, there really isn't much of a choice. It's like that Monty Python song, Spam.
And once again, there really isn't much of a choice. It's like that Monty Python song, Spam.
Spam, spam, spam. Spam and egg, spam and chips, spam, egg and chips.
The Conservative Party, the 'opposition' party in what's always been a two-horse race, will promise absolutely anything to win more votes. They always say that they're a new, modernised party, but like the apparently newly-respectable BNP (far-right, nationalist party), you know that underneath, they are the same right-wing, watered-down fascists that they've always been. They've just changed their ties, and re-phrased their tired old promises. The
Conservative Party and the Labour Party both walk that same line of trying to look as if they're doing something, whilst actually doing very little. They try to draw in minority voters whilst not alienating the majority. We saw that demonstrated by David Cameron's sad attempt, during his interview with Gay Times, at being 'right-on' and 'gay-friendly'. He thought he was putting out a new image of the Conservative Party by being interviewed by the 'Queer Press', and fell flat on his face at the first hurdle when they asked him why his party-representatives in the European Parliament had supported Lithuania's implementation of a new 'anti-gay' law. Anyone who thinks that the Conservative Party isn't still the party of the middle to far-right needs to look under the surface.
He's just another grey politician (apart from his high-vis cyclists stripe) who 'didn't inhale'. Just a shame that they all don't all stop inhaling completely and save all a lot of money.
Of course they are going to win, but the question is but what majority.
And of course I'm going to vote. I'm a great believer that we shouldn't waste a right that people died to get. But who am I going to vote for? Well, I'm a socialist, and I've voted Labour all my life. But the problem I have is that the current Labour Party bare deserve the title 'socialists' any more. They've moved so far towards the centre (or further), that they're hardly recognisable as a socialist party. And they seem to have been far too busy in the last couple of years trying to work out whose turn it is to 'be in charge' to actually worry about doing what they said on the tin. I would feel more positive about voting Labour if they promised a new party leader at least.
Gordon Brown was a brilliant finance minister (and I'm sure he's a very nice man who loved his mother), but he's been a total disaster as a party leader and Prime Minister. If ever a party were guilty of 'gross disappoint', then it is the current Labour Party.
And as for the other minor parties. I suppose it sends a message to the main parties when marginal parties receive votes, but apart from that, it's a pointless vote and has no impact on the way the country is governed. They have no voice (or seats) in Parliament.
I would feel more positive about voting Labour if they promised a new party leader. Gordon Brown was a brilliant finance minister, but he's been a disaster of a party leader and Prime Minister.
Fucking hell! Will someone please re-invent politics in this country and actually do what they say they'll do. Or just do SOMETHING! It's boring me to tears..................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would feel more positive about voting Labour if they promised a new party leader. Gordon Brown was a brilliant finance minister, but he's been a disaster of a party leader and Prime Minister.
Fucking hell! Will someone please re-invent politics in this country and actually do what they say they'll do. Or just do SOMETHING! It's boring me to tears..................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
