Sum up the 3 parties
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- Projectile
For those who haven't been watching the debates and actually making an concerted affort to follow all 3 parties and their policies, please state below your take on what the basic changes each party will make. Biased or unbiased, just lay it down.
(and no this shouldn't go into the who will you vote for thread)
This is what I've gathered so far...
Labour: Devil you know (spineless toosses who fucked it all up)
Tories: Devil you don't (evil capitalist snakes who will make the rich richer and fuck the rest)
Lib Dem: Who the devil? (they'll charge you for luxuries like having cars and selling houses)
- airey0
don't live there or really know enough to have an opinion but some light entertainment below for you:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commen…
- flashbender0
This is what I learned from the debates:
Tories: Confident
LibDems: Hopeful
Labor: Scared
But what do I care, really, I'm not allowed to vote here
- Confident is a code word for 'same old nasty tories'lukus_W
- bored2death0
Rich
Richer
Richest
- BaskerviIle0
Labour: everyone's tired of them but they have at least made a difference to socially, if also in negative ways internationally etc. we're in a financial crisis but it's not their fault, it's a global problem.
The world followed brown's lead in the aftermath.Conservative: trying to look new and shiny and hopeful but really just the same old people hidden behind the scenes, will certainly fuck up all of our social benefits and privatise more stuff, good if you're rich, not if otherwise
Lib dem: Have a good economist in their team but are completely idealistic and untested, what's important in this election is that they may start to be seen as a 3rd voice which we've never truly had, any extra input in parliament over and above the 2 party system is a good thing. who knows
- yeah its stupid to blame labour for recessionPIZZA
- but not for spiralling debt?trooperbill
- PIZZA0
"they'll charge you for luxuries like having cars and selling houses"
Good, don't need a car and don't want a house.
- johnnnnyh0
Baskerville - pretty much sums it up. Many people probably are tired of Labour and can't remember the Tories of old. While I'm not keen on Brown I don't see any good coming from a Conservative Govt. I lived my twenties through the eighties and it was a bad bad time.
- hans_glib0
This is what I learned from the debates:
Tories: We'll say anything to get into power
Labour: We'll say anything to stay in power
LibDems: We'll say anything to get into power
- BaskerviIle0
I wasn't even thinking of voting Labour until this past weekend when I was thinking about it.
I went to visit my elderly grandmother in a huge hospital, it was where all 3 of my other grandparents died. I remember it being huge and really run-down, a nasty place. When I visited at the weekend I was amazed at the transformation, her ward was new, very clean and fresh the nurses were great, really attentive. A vast improvement.
Say what you want about Labour but they have invested heavily in the NHS and it shows. I've had some really good experiences with the NHS recently, much more so than my childhood in the 80s
Also, to everyone who knows someone on minimum wage, Labour brought that in when they got into power, you wouldn't have got that under the tories, fair pay for the lowest paid.
And Civil Partnerships. don't take for granted the great things labour has done, as well as the bad things.
It's easy to take things for granted because you're used to them and expect them as a right. You'll notice them when they change or get taken away under a different government
- trooperbill0
OMG! its not just the current financial crisis... labour have fucked the country... its totally unsustainable. Tony sold us all out and then jumped ship just before things went tits up... before the financial crisis things were turning south in any case... people seem to have forgotten that. i dont get how they can promise to have a leaner ship and run things better when theyve had YEARS to do that already without success.
- BuddhaHat0
Stephen Fry (hardly an unbiased individual, I know) just posted this link via Twitter:
Johann Hari: Welcome to Cameron land
http://www.independent.co.uk/opi…
- trooperbill0
labour: bigot
conservative: old-boys-club
lib dem: different
- flashbender0
"Do we want our cities to look like Paris, where the rich own the centre, and the poor are banished to grey concrete slums on the outskirts where they riot with rage once a decade?"
I could live with that
- paris is a bloody nice city... (dodgy areas included)maikel
- maikel0
labour: shite and you know it
conservatives: shite and you are afraid to know more
Libdeb: we don't really know but it smells of shite
- monoboy0
Labour: Slightly right of centre
Conservatives: Fascists
LibDems: Loony left- But then again... http://www.thesun.co…monoboy
- oh my god!!!! *campaigns for labour*Projectile
- honest0
Red - Blue - Yellow
You never want to be called Yellow and you don't want to feel Blue, but you'll always be in the Red.
- ThePublics0
Dour Scot
RICH BOY
RICH BOY
- MakeBelieve0
Labour: Tired, battered and scared. Good overall, but bad record since in Tony B(liar). Took us to war for no gain.
Tories: Will say anything to get into power, fake smiles, fake 'change'. Rich and elitist.
Lib Dems: Fresh, bit loony, but different - smells like real change?
NO party will make real change or difference, not in 4 years anyway.
All of them support the damn war in Afghanistan and suck up to *I don't care about International law* Israel. Tories are the BNP with money, Labour is leaderless and sinking in its own shite but Lib Dems atleast need to be given a shot.
It will most likely be a hung parliament anyway :P
- sputnik20
gay, straight and bi-curious