Fantastic heart warming news

[malvolio]

No, there's clear water between their core principles. Two problems though - Tories can't develop and sell their own good ideas because NL will simply adopt them as their own (as they already have done, of course) and Cameron has to hold a public persona he may not actually believe in in order to win over Joe Sunreader, who is the real driver at the next election.

Plus, of course, the finances are in such a total mess and the NL legacy so deeply damaging that there is no room for manoeuvre in core policies, so we're stuck with the NL approach for a while to come.

[HairyArsedBloke]

... Labour will stay in power following the next general election.

Yes, I think you are right. The polls are just a serious mid-term kicking.

I dont see any difference between the parties.

This has a lot to do with it, but mostly it's the ledged of their previous time in office persisted by the leftie media.

I really don’t see much chance of change and recovery until there is a serious collapse in the economy.

[DiscoStu]

Then you are blind sir.

New Labour:

Reduction of civil liberties
Huge growing tax burden
Mushrooming of the public sector and civil servants
Destruction of family values and encouraging single parent families
Using Human Rights laws to protect terrorists and criminals whilst ignoring the needs of victims and law abiding.
Attacks on small business and entrepeneurs
Encouraging uncontrolled immigration, especially non-EU. Zero border controls and zero effort to root out illegals and deport them
Emphasis on victimising motorists
Keeping the poor poor and dependant on state handouts.
Nanny state mentality with thousands of pieces of disjointed and poorly drafted legislation.



Conservatives fundamentally do not believe in and will not follow this path.

It's up to you at the end of day. If you want to carry on in the fashion of the last 11 years, then don't vote Conservative.

Blimmin heck, first I'm agreeing with sasguru, now with DP too.

[DimPrawn]

i knew you were a guardian reader really.

I like to know the (warped) mind of my enemy.

[HairyArsedBloke]

It's up to you at the end of day. If you want to carry on in the fashion of the last 11 years, then don't vote Conservative.

I don't, but sadly, the majority of those who vote do. I cannot imagine of any atrocity that the nuLieBore regime could commit that would get what is left of the British voter to throw them out. Even if it was technically feasible to do so; they would change to rules to eliminate that possibility.