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ghoti_mhic_uaitIn 1997, I heard a lot about what happened the previous time Labour had been in power. I heard, endlessly, aboud the Miners' strike and the Winter of Discontent (I still don't see Thatcher as Richard III, but that's another issue). All of that, I was promised by the scare-mongers, could be mine if only I voted Labour. This time round, I'm getting a lot of 'remember what happened last time'. Well, yes, I do remember - and I'm still terrified of John Major, sad to say. However, Cameron isn't Major and he sure as hell isn't Thatcher. I was annoyed then, and I'm just as annoyed and sceptical now.
Don't vote based on what may or may not have happened last time - vote according to the manifesto, and be prepared to be disappointed anyway (remember the 1997 Labour pledge to repeal the Criminal Justice Act (1994)? It's still law). There's plenty in the Conservative manifesto to keep me from voting for them, as it happens. Please, please vote according to what the parties actually offer.
Again, if all a party or candidate has to offer is that they're not something else, do they deserve your vote? No! I want to vote for a fairer asylum system, scrapping Trident, more windfarms, and a candidate who has served my interests well in the past. Your values may differ, your vote may vary - I don't want you to vote what's right for me, I want you to vote what's right for you. I'd like best of all for them to be the same thing, of course.
Don't vote based on what may or may not have happened last time - vote according to the manifesto, and be prepared to be disappointed anyway (remember the 1997 Labour pledge to repeal the Criminal Justice Act (1994)? It's still law). There's plenty in the Conservative manifesto to keep me from voting for them, as it happens. Please, please vote according to what the parties actually offer.
Again, if all a party or candidate has to offer is that they're not something else, do they deserve your vote? No! I want to vote for a fairer asylum system, scrapping Trident, more windfarms, and a candidate who has served my interests well in the past. Your values may differ, your vote may vary - I don't want you to vote what's right for me, I want you to vote what's right for you. I'd like best of all for them to be the same thing, of course.
