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Originally posted by paperclip
hey guys, can you explain why exactly you support certain parties? I mean what issues are important to you.
For me, healthcare, education, enviroment, social economy are important issues so I lean very much towards social democrats/green party and their views on these issues.
Originally posted by colinonu
scottish national party for me,till we get independence,then its over to the socialists.....but may be tempted over to the far right,if things dont change in the uk
Originally posted by LostSailor
What the heck!!!
I can't tell you who you should vote for? You didn't seem to have any problem telling me!!!
But then again I understand I know nothing that really goes on in you country so I'll keep my mouth shut
Originally posted by kode
I do have some concerns about the cabinet. Mainly blunkett. Im not racist against disabled people and i know they can do as good a job as any, but i feel to be in the world of politics and making decisions which will ultimately effect the lives of everyday people you should be able to see. [Btw that�s my opinion i don�t mean any insult to any disabled ats members].
Originally posted by kode
LETS NOT FORGET WHO BOUGHT US THE COUNCIL TAX/POLL TAX. And if you watch TV footage of the Thatcher years your see just how in richmans la la land that lot are.
Originally posted by bigdanprice
There are three main political parties
Conservative (right center)
New Labour (left center) 'supposedly'
Liberal Democrats (center)
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
The minimum wage (who remembers cleaners etc - not to mention that huge number of people in the black-market 'off the books' and not contributing/paying their taxes - exercising their 'freedom' under the tory gov, long after Thatcher, getting �1.50/hr? .....or are we all nice middle class types, or far too young, who wouldn't know jack about how so many actually had to live, year in year out?)
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
The Pensioner's Winter fuel allowance. (Now at �300 every Christmas to every pensioner, IMO the least the 4th or 5th richest nation in the world could be doing for all its' old folks......compared to the tory Christmas �10 it's a little better, eh?)
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
Child benefit significantly up.....and given the birth-rate in the UK every incentive going is needed to encourage people. We simply aren't replacing ourselves. This record in stark contrast to the derisory tory rate of increase.
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
Unemployment a fraction of the tory record, a world away from the under-counted 3 million + it was - twice!, once under Thatcher & once under Major for sustained periods - under the tories. Again for some comfortable or young types this won't mean anything much but for what were the ruined 'black-spots' around the UK it is of massive importance. See what generations unemployed does to a place and say it doesn't matter.
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
The NHS being rebuilt. I defy anyone to actually go to a few hospitals nowadays and not see the improvements. I have been to 3 hospitals within car driving distance of me and every one has major new wings and my experience and that of my family is that waiting lists are down, noticeably.
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
School investment. Again I defy anyone with kids to say there has been no improvement in the schools they attend. It is simply not true.
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
The economy. Nearly eight straight years of growth now. A much reduced public debt saving billions � per year in interest payments we no longer have to meet.
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
Not one recession, never mind the record of the tory two worst - deepest and most protracted - post-war recessions.
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
Taxes. The tory party instinct is whenever possible to always cut taxes for the already very wealthy, everyone else gets crumbs if we're lucky.
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
Tax is currently waaaaaay below the level they were during most of Thatchers time....yet some idiots claim this Labour gov is a high-taxing 'socialist nightmare'......what the hell does that make Thatcher then, a marxist?
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
Michael Vlad 'Mr Poll tax himself' Howard will not be PM here, you can be sure of that.
Originally posted by UK Wizard
arh my arch nemisis sminkeypinkey
The Tory's couldn't get rid of the minimum wage, it doesn't matter if one or two members oppose the minimum wage the majority support it.
The energy bill has risen at a rate in which the allowance means less and less each year. Your also forgetting that money doesn't equal exactly the same as it did then.
So we want to increase our population
...bad idea for a Island of this size.
By incuraging the population we're only going to end up where we are now but worse off.
Labour is dealing with unemployment by increasing those in 'service careers' while those in 'Industry' are disappearing by 102,000 in the last quarter of the year.
MRSA, it causes the deaths of 5,000 people each year, due to pointless targets and privatised cleaning staff.
The NHS needs re-structuring not just a mass amount of money pumping into it.
I'm still at (one more year to go) school, yes there is finanicial investment, but what about discipline, top up fee's, over examining etc
What about the �1 trillion in debt the people of Britain are in!!!
Recessions are often due to international or industrial restructuring.
Evidence for the cutting of tax for the very wealthy????
tell that to all the old grannies who don't have enough to pay their council tax.
And lets not forget the 66 stealth tax rises.
Poll tax a bad idea then and a bad idea now, but it wouldn't be introduced now.