I agree with David’s comments but Andrew, do I need to remind you of the likes of John Major? Do I need to remind you of day when the markets crashed big time? Yes, the UK is in a much bigger debt than when the tories left downing street but long term, the country is in a much healthier position investment wise, lessons have been learnt from the Blair years especially with the Iraqi conflict.
With all the bickering about the jobs tax, everyone should really be focusing UK’s exporting business. Somethings should be re-nationalised eg Coral Steel – which should be called British steel and get competitive in the market. The costs of building the 2012 olympics village would be so much cheaper if we used our own steel. The costs of building houses would be so much cheaper.
The UK were the first to invent railways and steam trains – The UK should look into manufacturing “green” trains where we can sell into Europe. We should invest more into wind farms and have a national electric company where everyone pays the same rate – in other words, when the wind farm have earn’t its money, the funds will help to reduce the debt. If we have enough power, UK could export power to european countries.
These are only a few examples which the UK could do. Whoever wins the election needs to have the guts to make these changes and make britain powerful again.
Finally I would like to see some positive plans from the party leaders in terms what they would liked to have achieved in 5 years time before making my vote.
Paul