29-08-12, 10:05 PM
Quote:Oh go on then, I'll pretend those 13 years of war, lies intrusiveness and deceit never happened and vote labour gain. [img alt=:rolleyes width=32 height=32]http://foc-u.co.uk/file:///C:/Users/GARETH%7E1/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif[/img]
A fair point. Tony reformed the Labour party and placed it on the centre left, but after being elected he continued on a Thatcherite agenda. More privatisation, public private partnership, private delivery of public services, deregulation of banks and finance, while creating a housing shortage and allowing an economy to grow rapidly on the back of easy credit and rising asset prices. In other words a hard swing to the right. And yes those wars, there never was any WMD, the only folks with the WMD were us lot.
But I don't see a further swing to the right as the answer. UKIP want to weaken industrial tribunals, which is further weakening of our employment laws. I wonder (genuinely as I don't know) what their response was to the ditched Tory proposals. And I can't find hardly any mention of Trade Unions when googling their manifesto.
UKIP want to increase military spending, and have pledged to replace the Trident Nuclear 'Deterrent' I'm sorry but putting aside the moral aspects of nuclear weapons, well there just ain't any money for that sort of madness.
I also recall Farrage backing bribes for arms sales and stating that he didn't really care that the regimes we are or may sell to are corrupt and frankly may have no actual use of the systems we are or may sell them.
They are also climate change deniers. This when in the next ten years it's possible we may see the Arctic Ice Cap completely melt. They don't do renewable energy.
His party is also firmly in favour of reducing taxes for the rich. Perhaps the rest of us will become the 99.9% under a Nigel government rather than just the mere 99%.
Of course things look shit. We haven't had electoral reform. The Lid Dems have blown their biggest chance ever, if they had of chosen not to get in bed with the Tory party, well the Tory party having formed a minority government would probably be back in the wilderness by now. Instead the Lib Dems got into bed with the crooks and failed to deliver the only thing that could ever be worth such a move - electoral reform - and are now about to be completely wiped out.
So it's Tory or Labour again. Has Labour reformed enough and found their soul again?
I could go on. But what the UK is missing is choice. You are looking at a crumbling democracy.