Clark Kent
Apr 06, 2010, 02:39 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/general-election-2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/
It's election time here in the UK. Polling day has been set for Thursday 6 May (incidentally the birthday of former PM, Tony Blair).
Gordon Brown's Labour government is aiming to win a fourth succesive term in office. The government's minor successes can't outweigh the follies of its past thirteen years in office - the disastrous wars, the incompetent economic management, the inflated state bureaucracy, the increased inequality, the crushing of traditional liberties and, of course, the overbearing arrogance. Labour should be facing a humiliating defeat but they cling on and there's a strong possibility that they can form another goverment on 7 May, despite having won less votes than their main opponents, the Tories.
Ah yes, the Tories, led by David Cameron should really be coasting to victory. Yet the wheels are falling of Dave's bandwagon. Is it because his message on the economy is too harsh for the prissy voters? Is it because people think that he is a PR salesman who will say anything? Or, as I suspect, is it because peeople are sick and tired of the arrogance of the political elite and are subscribing to the "they are all the same" mantra?
Then there's the organised hypocrisy of the Lib Dems, the so-called principled third party, who will say and do anything to get a sniff of power. Can they hold the balance of power in a hung parliament?
I'd like to say that I'm looking forward to the campaign but I'm not. The next month will be one of smears, cheap slogans and personal attacks, with no party addressing the mind-boggling economic problems that the UK faces or other key issues. Let's just hope that the TV networks have cool graphics for election night.
The saying is "may the best man win" but for this election, it'll should be "may the least worst man win". I hope it's Cameron, not because I like him but because I disdain the Labour government, but Brown's poll ratings have been strangely buoyant, so I wouldn't be surprised to see him smiling from the steps of Downing Street on 7 May.
As for my vote. I live in the sectarian black hole that is Northern Ireland and the local parties here are worse than the parties in mainland Britain. I'm still undecided.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/
It's election time here in the UK. Polling day has been set for Thursday 6 May (incidentally the birthday of former PM, Tony Blair).
Gordon Brown's Labour government is aiming to win a fourth succesive term in office. The government's minor successes can't outweigh the follies of its past thirteen years in office - the disastrous wars, the incompetent economic management, the inflated state bureaucracy, the increased inequality, the crushing of traditional liberties and, of course, the overbearing arrogance. Labour should be facing a humiliating defeat but they cling on and there's a strong possibility that they can form another goverment on 7 May, despite having won less votes than their main opponents, the Tories.
Ah yes, the Tories, led by David Cameron should really be coasting to victory. Yet the wheels are falling of Dave's bandwagon. Is it because his message on the economy is too harsh for the prissy voters? Is it because people think that he is a PR salesman who will say anything? Or, as I suspect, is it because peeople are sick and tired of the arrogance of the political elite and are subscribing to the "they are all the same" mantra?
Then there's the organised hypocrisy of the Lib Dems, the so-called principled third party, who will say and do anything to get a sniff of power. Can they hold the balance of power in a hung parliament?
I'd like to say that I'm looking forward to the campaign but I'm not. The next month will be one of smears, cheap slogans and personal attacks, with no party addressing the mind-boggling economic problems that the UK faces or other key issues. Let's just hope that the TV networks have cool graphics for election night.
The saying is "may the best man win" but for this election, it'll should be "may the least worst man win". I hope it's Cameron, not because I like him but because I disdain the Labour government, but Brown's poll ratings have been strangely buoyant, so I wouldn't be surprised to see him smiling from the steps of Downing Street on 7 May.
As for my vote. I live in the sectarian black hole that is Northern Ireland and the local parties here are worse than the parties in mainland Britain. I'm still undecided.