According to the Labour Party website the Labour Party will try to achieve the following if they retain power at the 2010 general election on May 6th: The next election is a straight choice between Labour and the Conservatives. If people with progressive values don’t want to go back to the same old Tories, then […]
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Frontline services are of course areas where resources must be protected, but are they all operated in the most cost effective way? It seems reasonable to assume that there are cuts that can be made in these services without posing a risk to our standards of living. Labour, as always, are using scare tactics to try and sway the public, but it worries me a great deal more when a party claims they can save our economy without any kind of sacrifice in some of the main areas of spending. Labour are trying to say we can all have our cake and eat it, which makes me deeply suspicous.
Both Labour and the Conservatives are using the tactic of saying a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote for the opposite party, but surely they can’t both be right!
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A vote for the LibDems in a LibDem / Tory marginal is not necessarily a vote for Labour but is an anti-Tory vote; similarly a vote for the LibDems in a LibDem / Labour marginal is an anti-Labour vote. This is the great LibDem conundrum. They can only define themsleves in opposition to the other parties not as a party in and for themselves. Their election manifesto is an attempt to rectify this and what a dog’s breakfast that has turned out to be. It seems to be a mish-mash of left-leaning, then right-leaning policies that do not articulate to an cohenrent whole. They are, however, to be feared. If you are on benefits, or if you have pre-school children, or if you have a chronic medical condition, read the LibDem manifesto. It is more frightening than the Tories. No ruling out of cuts to working Tax Credits or, importantly, other benefits, means testing child benefit, no commitment to maintain existing NHS spending levels, and, most of all,no commitment to maintaining Sure Start or subsidised nursery places.
Caring Liberalism? Mmmm. Vote Labour for all our children’s sake.
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