Does it matter who wins the next election?

[Flashman]

The 3 main parties all believe in pushing the national debt higher. The current government has continued to spend more than they get in taxes and borrowed to pay for it.

Cameron and Clegg talk about paying the "deficit down to zero" as if thats the end of the matter, problem is once (if) the deficit comes down to zero then we need to go further and actually start to pay the national debt off.

All 3 main parties believe in open doors immigration in all but name, while using slick words to pretend otherwise. All 3 of them believe in uncapped ICT work visas being issued to Indian nationals to displace Brits from the workforce.

The whole political class is deeply lying to the British people, and from such a small section of society, and the way parliamentary candidates are selected is so rigged that democracy is a sham.

I dont expect UKIP to magically fix anything, or be much better, but the PPE political and journalistic class needs a kick up the bum big time.

Damn right Coolcat.

Labour will clear £86bn deficit by 2020, Ed Balls says

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls makes "binding fiscal commitment" if the Labour Party wins next year’s general election.

Labour will clear £86bn deficit by 2020, Ed Balls says - Telegraph

Isn't this the same promise made by the Tories?

Fat lot of choice there.

Vote for anybody apart from the same rotten lot we've had for the last 20 years.

Vote Green
Vote Communist
Vote UKIP! (<---this one!, this one!)

[CoolCat]

The 3 main parties all believe in pushing the national debt higher. The current government has continued to spend more than they get in taxes and borrowed to pay for it.

Cameron and Clegg talk about paying the "deficit down to zero" as if thats the end of the matter, problem is once (if) the deficit comes down to zero then we need to go further and actually start to pay the national debt off.

All 3 main parties believe in open doors immigration in all but name, while using slick words to pretend otherwise. All 3 of them believe in uncapped ICT work visas being issued to Indian nationals to displace Brits from the workforce.

The whole political class is deeply lying to the British people, and from such a small section of society, and the way parliamentary candidates are selected is so rigged that democracy is a sham.

I dont expect UKIP to magically fix anything, or be much better, but the PPE political and journalistic class needs a kick up the bum big time.

[AtW]

Policies will be more or less the same, but Liebour will have higher income/CGT/indirect taxes.

[Zero Liability]

Assuming the Tories have achieved what they state they have and are not just relying on cheap central bank finance to buoy the economy up (which is now a global phenomenon)...

But no, it doesn't really matter. All three parties implement the same policies and the only difference is how they calibrate them, with a few percentage point differences here and there on how much pelf they intend to extract or how many billions/trillions they intend to spend and finance through borrowing or money printing.

[Platypus]

They'll borrow it of course. And bankrupt the country again.

Will they dare raise taxes further? We'll see.

Yes, if they raise taxes on the "well off" [anyone not on benefits] I do see a flaw in the plan !

[d000hg]

Money is just made up so it might as well grow on trees.

[DodgyAgent]

If Labour win then we'll probably have spend spend spend on public services and maybe even pensions, so we're all winners.

If the Tories win the economy continues to improve, so we're all winners.

Does it matter?

Seriously, does it make any material difference to us?

Discuss

Have you bothered to ask where labour are going to get the money from or are you of the "money grows on trees" set?

[Platypus]

If Labour win then we'll probably have spend spend spend on public services and maybe even pensions, so we're all winners.

If the Tories win the economy continues to improve, so we're all winners.

Does it matter?

Seriously, does it make any material difference to us?

Discuss