“I don’t think any of the parties (bar Labour) can honestly state

Comment on Why I’ll Never Vote Conservative at a General Election by David.

“I don’t think any of the parties (bar Labour) can honestly state how they will improve the books until they actually get into office.”

I agree which tells us Labour are avoiding telling us the truth and the Conservatives are talking total BS.

Neither of them want to give us real information because it looses votes. Here’s an example of a mistake: David Cameron has trashed Labour’s proposed efficiency savings, now George Osbourne is using them as a basis for a tax cut! Worse government debt EVER and the Tories are talking tax cuts again, the Conservatives have not changed one bit IMO.

It leaves us with the rare occasion when they make a mistake and actually state their plans or looking at their past actions.

I tend to go on past actions as those are real events, not what they might do in the future (the Tories can’t give us a tax cut, what they’ll give with one hand they’ll take back with the other). I find Labour better for more people on the NHS, working rights, even education and I think the education in this country SUCKS!!! than the Conservatives.

Labour make SOOOO many mistakes, but I find they care far more than the Conservatives.

“Do you not think that it is a fair point though that when the last Conservative government first came into power they had to take drastic action to bring the country out of the economic distress it was under at the time?”

Yes it’s a fair point, do you think it’s a fair point they went too far and made major mistakes with the economy that pushed us into recession twice?

Wasn’t a lot of the North Sea Oil revenue wasted on unemployment benefits because of Tory mismanagement?

At least this recession is not the fault of the government, of course the economy can always be managed better and I find it embarrassing a person like Gordon Brown when chancellor didn’t see the bank sector problem to such a degree to do something about it. He says now he was trying to make changes to the banking sector but it was world wide changes he was after, but it didn’t happen so clearly he didn’t see what a very, very small number of people did see coming (I understand Vince Cable was warning of this years ago, though he didn’t see it being this bad!).

Still it wasn’t a government caused recession and I think they’ve taken a bold step with the risk of a very expensive stimulus package that has kept a lot of people in work. The Tories would have rather let the recession bottom out as fast as possible causing far more unemployment and then try to cut their way out of recession like they have in past recessions and that takes a decade for our country to recover from!

I am thankful Labour was in power when the recession hit.

David