Originally posted by The Last Man on Earth
Are...you...freaking...KIDDING ME? Do you honestly think that Labour have done a good job? Have you not seen the polls that show the Tories have a
clear majority? People DO want the Tories back in because when Labour have utterly #ed this country's finances, it's the fiscally-sound Tories who
come in and sort the mess out.
I honestly can't believe your post, it's like you haven't been paying attention to the Orwellian regime Tony Blair introduced!
To be honest this is a failure of democracy if the tories win the next election, as too many people vote tories as a protest vote. I hear people's
reasons for changing their vote away from Labour, and they just don't make any sense. I think it's a sign that the voters have stopped listening,
and therefore aren't really making an informed choice. But that's the downfall of democracy, and Brown's lacks these kind of communicating skills.
He recently admitted this obvious fact.
People with familieis on minimum wage say Labour has done nothing for them, well Tony Blair introduced working families tax credit and increased
minimum wage. I was still growing up when Labour came to power and I'm from a working class background, I can tell you that the tory government
prior to 97 did nothing for us. When Labour came to power we had a much better life and future to look forward to. People forget what Labour managed
to do for so many people.
You fall for the tory nonsense of blame Gordon for the global economic crisis. Cameron's party has no actual policies to show us and just smuggly
slag off Gordon with nice little catchphrases that don't mean anything. I didn't necessarily agree with bailing out failed banks.
I would have preferred to just bail the money out to the bad banks customers and say to the banks its your problems, and the customers can then put
their money into the good banks. Maybe that would have been too risky, who knows I'm not an economist.
But for sure we can say that bailing out the banks was better than doing nothing. The tories never bothered to say what they would do - the do
nothing party would have disastrously let the banks fail doing nothing or done the same, so how can the tories dare criticize Brown for this. Smug
Cameron is pathetic!
How can you call the tories fiscally sound, they were responsible for Black Wednesday in 1992. Ask them to give you the figures for their fiscal
plans, or listen to Paxman on newsnight interviewing the a tory MP. They never even attempt to give any figures as they just never add up.
I'm not saying Labour have been perfect, there's definitely some policies I do disagree. ID cards for one, and Brown's inability to connect with
the voters is not acceptable.
And of course if the tories do win in the next election I will accept Labour needs to regroup and rethink how it can get back to grass-roots level
politics to get the people's attention again. The UK is not Iran, if the tories win we have a tory government again. I do accept that. :lol
[edit on 20-6-2009 by john124]
