I genuinely believe that on all the important social issues - identifying sectors of the population that really need help and helping them - Labour's record is spotless. Yes, they have a tendency to appear barking mad on any issue that their friend George Bush is involved with, but I'm willing to believe that international politics in the last 4 years has been a bit of a minefield that no party would have a clear idea how to proceed in.
Whereas, who are Lib Dem policies actually going to help? As far as I can see they are now *tailored* towards siphoning off votes from the middle classes that might otherwise be going to the Tories. And if you're middle class the Lib Dems probably do look like an enticing prospect, but if you're actually below the poverty line with day-to-day survival to worry about, it's still Labour all the way. I have an LJ friend who tells me that in his constituency the Lib Dem candidate is against wind farms, while in the next one along they're pro-foxhunting. And this sums up the Lib Dems at the moment, they're just playing the system, telling people what they want to hear regardless of whether it could possibly make sense in the event of them actually getting into power.
I'll concede that Tony Blair has turned into a bit of an slimy git after 8 years of absolute power, but I see no catastrophe inherent in a Labour government, as compared to some governments of the late 20th century I could mention. It's a shame our voting system doesn't allow us to fix small problems in the way the country is being run without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, really.
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Whereas, who are Lib Dem policies actually going to help? As far as I can see they are now *tailored* towards siphoning off votes from the middle classes that might otherwise be going to the Tories. And if you're middle class the Lib Dems probably do look like an enticing prospect, but if you're actually below the poverty line with day-to-day survival to worry about, it's still Labour all the way. I have an LJ friend who tells me that in his constituency the Lib Dem candidate is against wind farms, while in the next one along they're pro-foxhunting. And this sums up the Lib Dems at the moment, they're just playing the system, telling people what they want to hear regardless of whether it could possibly make sense in the event of them actually getting into power.
I'll concede that Tony Blair has turned into a bit of an slimy git after 8 years of absolute power, but I see no catastrophe inherent in a Labour government, as compared to some governments of the late 20th century I could mention. It's a shame our voting system doesn't allow us to fix small problems in the way the country is being run without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, really.