I wouldn’t go as far as “We are sleepwalking into a Big

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by David.

I wouldn’t go as far as “We are sleepwalking into a Big Brother state not unlike East Germany before the wall came down.”, but I do worry about the direction Labour takes us in regarding our civil liberties.

It’s not my highest priority right now, the economy is and what the Conservatives have planned is likely to send us back into negative growth (AKA double dip recession).

Who’d have thought that in 2010 the Labour party are able to effectively fight a general election on the economy because the Conservatives apparently haven’t got a clue what to do beyond cut, cut, cut public sector costs which economists agree will send us back into recession!

If you’ve followed the Conservatives on the economy since the credit crunch, they started with:

Conservatives answer, do nothing positive, slash public spending and leave the rest to market forces.

Labour’s stimulus package was put in place (opposed by the Tories).

Conservatives answer, we need to cut that package NOW to reduce the deficit, slash public sector spending!

Labour’s stimulus package starts to work and economists get behind it with a consensus of don’t cut the lifeline until the economy is strong enough to withstand the pain.

Conservatives answer, yes it’s wrong to cut deep, but we still need to cut now, but only in areas on efficiency savings and we’ll do more than Labour, but can’t tell you how yet.

Could you imagine where we’d be now if the Conservatives was in government when the credit crunch hit, they wouldn’t have bailed the banks out and we’d all have lost our savings as banks went under! It’s cost us a bloody fortune to keep the economy afloat (and it sucks we, the tax payer had to bail out the banks), but at least the economy didn’t free fall as it probably would have had Labour done what the Conservatives wanted to do.

Under the Conservatives we’d be looking at a decade plus of young peoples long term unemployment and destroyed communities like we had in the 90s recession!

I have to admit before the credit crunch and recession I saw the Conservatives as a better choice for running the economy, but it’s been quite shocking that the Conservative party, the party that should be strong on the economy is so inept!

David