“New Labour party is no longer a working man/woman’s party”. For the sake

Comment on UK General Election Hung Parliament by David.

“New Labour party is no longer a working man/woman’s party”.

For the sake of argument lets say you are right Natalie, what’s the alternative for a British voter who cares about working class families?

As it stands we either get a Labour government or a Conservative government with a slim chance of a hung parliament resulting in a coalition government between Labour and the Lib Dems or Conservatives and the Lib Dems.

So pretty much Labour or Conservative in government.

Do you see the Conservatives as the party of the working class?

All the Tory MPs opposed the national minimum wage at every opportunity, even now with it in place there’s Tory MPs trying to get around the national minimum wage with new legislation: Tory MPs tried to put a bill through that employers could refuse to hire people who wouldn’t work for less than national minimum wage! Right now the Conservatives can’t get any legislation through that will damage the national minimum wage, but you give them a majority in parliament and watch workers rights start to slowly degrade!

Conservatives want to remove controls on working conditions on NHS workers (see the working time directive) that will take the NHS back to junior Doctors working dangerously long hours!

Is this what you want for working class British people?

I’ve said it many times, I’m not happy with the Labour party, but look at the alternative, a bunch of Tory multi millionaires who care more about themselves than British workers!

I’m doing well financially and I assume I’d be better off under a Conservative government long term, but then I’m not a selfish “I’m all right Jack” type of person and won’t vote Conservative just because it means less of my money goes to services for the less well off.

If you are well off and don’t care much about others not so well off, vote Conservative by all means. Lets hope with their plans to cut services far harder and faster than Labour doesn’t result in anyone you care about loosing their job and lets hope it doesn’t throw us into a double dip recession and effects our house prices and investments, pensions etc…

David