General election 2010

[naraht]

Anyone following the general election news? Expecting a hung parliament? Hoping for a hung parliament? I thought it might be nice to have a discussion thread...

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Comments

[aphenine]

I'm hoping the Lib Dems will do well. I'm hoping for a hung parliament.

I can't see the Conservatives being good for the country because they're using policies that are a bit neoliberal. I thought the whole point of the Credit Crunch was that it was one big exercise in proving why neoliberalism doesn't work. I'm not sure that artificially stimulating the economy with another bubble is the way to get out of a recession, especially when you're cutting the public sector to do it.

I can't see Labour being good for the country because they seem to be dead set on perpetuating their policies. They seem to want to keep control of the public sector with massive bureaucracy and seem hell bent on artificially inflating the economy with public spending rather than creating an artificial bubble like the Tories. It still won't work.

In the end, the Lib Dems represent the middle path to me. They say that you can cut bureaucracy without going right-wing and wiping away the social, health and environmental controls that keep business from turning cancerous while at the same time insisting on some discipline with public spending to avoid the worst of left-wing extremes.

I'm only annoyed that they are still trying to be competitive in their policies with the other two, which means that like the Tories and Labour, we're being lied to, although not to the same degree as the other parties. It kind of makes me want to take the advice of the UKIP poster I got through the door, with the title "Sod the Lot". It makes a lot of sense that, when all the main electable parties are lying to you and you can't trust any of them, to give none of them an outright majority and give the swing vote to the most trustworthy.

I'm also getting heartily sick of the election. I wish it were over by now. None of the parties are saying anything new or interesting, and all they're doing is drilling their messages home. I switch on the news and feel I'm being brainwashed... Also, my father's a Lib Dem councillor and a good politician, so I feel obliged to help him get elected and deliver leaflets... :( So... many... leaflets... *sobs*