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I’ll be voting for..?

Lib dem.

Haha – of course not – they have absolutely no clue of how to run a country, voting for the Lib Dems would probably see our economy going the way of greece (down the toilet).

So.. a smarmy smug git promising change and a social or a socially inept economist.

Well, at the moment I don’t think we’re doing too badly. Yes we’ve just got quite a large amount of debt from public spending and we’ll have to do something about that, but right now my employer’s customers are predominantly public sector. Conservatives say they will cut public spending. This won’t be good for me, but that would be a fairly narcissistic approach to take. The labour party promise to do it too, but in a more considered, less abrupt way that may not cause the economy to recoil in shock; the money has to keep circulating to avoid a contraction. So, as far as I can see, the conservatives will be bad for not just my pocket, but everyone’s. Ok, yes the labour party will put up national insurance, but if we don’t take money out of people’s pay packets, then they will, considering recent events, most likely just try and save it – not good for the economy either.

The conservatives want to reduce inheritance tax – well, this might be good for me, but to be honest this will probably happen in a few year time anyway and I don’t really see how this will help the majority of the people who live in Britain.

The conservatives are promising change. I have no idea what this will be – will it be change for the better? I’m not so sure. Will it be the same old shit? Probably. Can they manage the economy as well as it has been (it has been well managed whatever you may say – yes we have just been through a bad period, but you can’t exactly say this was Brown’s fault – he took charge after it had started to go wrong and he made several decisive, smart moves in limiting the implications of a global economic crises that originated in the US housing/mortgage markets. Are we being bailed out by Europe? Did the UK economy collapse? Did everyone loose their pensions / savings. No.)

The Conservatives currently have this on their front page:

We are publishing a contract with the voters, which commits us to do certain specific things in exchange for people’s vote. And we are saying clearly in this contract, if we don’t do those things, if we don’t deliver our side of the bargain: vote us out in five years time.

Right, well, nice of the conservatives to really put themselvs on the line here then. Wait, actually, that would be the original bloody concept of parlimentary elections – you make a promise, break it, someone else makes the same bleak promise in a different way and we vote them in instead. Really original Dave.

So, a smug, patronising git, or a socially inept freak whom occasionally talks economic sense.

/end political rant


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