UK: Who will you vote for?

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    Under Labour we have had:

    Abolition of a strong financial regulator

    Invasion of Iraq

    Invasion of Afganistan

    The biggest National Debt in peacetime ever

    Tuition Fees

    The highest level of immigration ever, without asking anyone

    The largest number of people economically inactive ever

    The under funding of armed forces

    Whilst the higest spending in history on the NHS, of which the Nation audit office thinks 40% was wasted

    The selling off of gold reserves

    The unchecked selling of UK's largest companies to foreign investors

    The most obscene housing boom in UK history, excluding the very people they aim to help

    The unashamed pillage of UK pension schemes

    Income tax of 50%, rise in Nation Insurance

    Growth in Quangos and bureaucracy of 76%

    The about turn on a referendum on Europe

    An unelected Prime minister who uses unelected advisors like Mandleson who tell Iraq how to run a democracy... ppft

    etc etc etc

    Yes they've done some wonderfully progressive things, and yes the country is more modern and probably better than it was in 1997 in so so many ways.

    I voted for Blair in 97, but fuck me, the damage that they have done to this country financially is so fucking huge that the debit will be still be being paid off by my great grand kids, and that's if things dont get worse.

    I have a friend who is the european economics advisor for HSBC, very high up and influences a lot of things, my brother in law also works for the IMF, and both think there is way way worse to come for the UK.

    Our debt is insane, we overspend, and at currently we owe roughly 90k per household, and we borrow £1 billion every 3 days. We make Greece look like pocket change. Yes we can inflate our way out of it, but if we have to do that £3 for a loaf of bread anyone?

    It's wrong and frankly financial mismanagement should have criminal charges put to it.

    I'm hovering between Lib Dems and Tories. I live in a shoe-in Labour seat so Ealing will be Labour whatever, but the idea of Ed Balls, The milliband brothers and Gordon Brown not to mention Mandleson.

    Gordon Brown may have integrity etc, im sure he does, but frankly the people running this country aren't clever or good enough to get us out of the mess we're in. We need a change and we need it quickly otherwise we are genuinely fucked. We're struggling to even keep British Airways registered in the UK as the papers say today.

    Give you some of the people in Charge:

    Ed Milliband, done nothing...
    After a brief career in television journalism, he became a speechwriter and researcher for Labour politician Harriet Harman in 1993, and then for Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown the following year. In 1997, following Labour's landslide election victory, Miliband was appointed as one of Gordon Brown's special advisers with specific responsibility as a speechwriter. In 2003–4, he spent a year's sabbatical at Harvard University, to study and lecture at Harvard's Centre for European Studies,[2] during which time he was 'granted access' to Senator John Kerry and reported back to Brown on the Presidential hopeful's progress.[3] In 2004 he was appointed chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers, directing the UK's long-term economic planning.

    My local MP:
    Virendra Sharma was born in India in 1947 and educated at the London School of Economics on a trade union scholarship.[3] He speaks fluent Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu. He is married with a grown-up son and daughter and three grandchildren.
    Sharma came to Hanwell from India in 1968 and became a bus conductor on the 207 route, later working as a day services manager for people with learning disabilities in Hillingdon.
    He has been a local councillor in the London Borough of Ealing since 1982 and has been Mayor for part of his time as councillor.[3]. He has been criticised by councillors from other political parties for his level of attendance at council meetings.[4] He is not standing for re-election as a local councillor in the 2010 Local Elections.

    I could go on. Only THREE labour MP's have had a manual job. The real tragedy of our system, is that we pay to little for our MPs and we get chimps, the civil service isn't much better.

    We have Third rate individuals around this country running it into the ground.

    If it takes Eton boys giving jobs to the bright Eton mates to get us out of this mess im in...

    Cant be any worse...

    NOW thats a rant :)

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    • Still not trying to convince anyone?
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    • Did you cut and paste this from the Daily Mail?
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    • No I actually wrote this one from my head. and all of it true too. Go figure.kingkong
    • "I strongly believe in, is it's not my place to persuade you its the politicians."
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    • < those were your words on the previous page.
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    • I slept on in and fancied a rantkingkong
    • The Tory party have a tendency to say one thing and do another.
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    • I wouldnt know Im not a memberkingkong
    • hahahaha you need to stop reading the daily mail and base your opinions on facts rather than fiction my friendisakosmo
    • er... what of this isn't true?hans_glib
    • Eton boys, most of these morons are in Government as it is and look how that turned out.
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