A Bit Political Again...
If you are reading this outside of the UK you may be unfamiliar with our political system. I'll link to some sites so you can should you wish to look in greater detail(but not official websites)as all that will get you is the official and biased line each party wishes to put across.
Get this, a Memo from some Lib Dem advisor has been leaked and mentioned in the news. The suggestion is that they must attack their Conservative coalition partners in the new year.
That the Conservatives can't be trusted to build a fair society. They praise themselves and say until the Lib Dems got into government, no one could stop the Tories from looking after the super rich.
It's a bit late now...Many feel that the Lib Dems can't be trusted and have not acted to put the breaks on the plans the Conservatives had and that all they were and are still concerned about was the fact that they had the chance to taste being in charge of the country(even if they had to share with another party)after many years in the wilderness and because it may not happen again, they gave up on their principles. They have already had to apologise on at least one of the policies they left behind in their manifesto. Someone even made a joke video of the Lib Dem leader's apology. Publicly he had to react to it and be gracious.
The hurt is happening and the policies that will really hurt the guy in the street have been given their support hence what is happening in 2013. Many will find income reduced whether in work or not as most of the essentials we need in our daily lives are continuing to increase(rent, utility bills, water rates, council tax)but they are introducing new charges and fees that will reduce a households income still further and may see some struggling to keep a rood over their heads and much of the help that people depend on from the State is being frozen, removed or replaced but they say that they want to keep the Conservatives anchored to the centre ground.
Mind they also say that Labour cannot be trusted to run the economy...make what you will of that looking at where we are at present.
It is damage limitation and they are watching their backs for the run up to the next election. I doubt that there are many more important policies to be released between now and then. The Conservatives have managed to get all they really wanted through Parliament and the Lib Dems have not put up much of an opposition. So even if they try to halt some of the remaining plans or amend them, most of the population could care less about what remains on the agenda.
Over all if you visit many sites, forums or watch political programmes the opinion of experts and the public that speak few if any believe that the Lib Dems will do well in the coming years if ever again.
Our main parties are now too similar in nature and most politicians are seen as professionals who often have no experience of life outside of an elitist education, they are usually from a business world often with inherited wealth(quite a few in the Government at present are millionaires)so that causes accusations of being out of touch with most of the population and many who go into politics are younger these days and then manage to stay their for decades.
But the only alternatives to me that are sometimes put forward as a way to worry and give the present parties a bloody nose lean the same way and could be even more extreme than what we have already.
Those are the BNP and UKIP.
Interesting but troubled times...I dislike where UK politics are at present and wonder if there is for good or bad a change coming and whether I will live to see it or will leave the world as disillusioned as I feel now. Or being the age I have reached if I am really bothered.
Get this, a Memo from some Lib Dem advisor has been leaked and mentioned in the news. The suggestion is that they must attack their Conservative coalition partners in the new year.
That the Conservatives can't be trusted to build a fair society. They praise themselves and say until the Lib Dems got into government, no one could stop the Tories from looking after the super rich.
It's a bit late now...Many feel that the Lib Dems can't be trusted and have not acted to put the breaks on the plans the Conservatives had and that all they were and are still concerned about was the fact that they had the chance to taste being in charge of the country(even if they had to share with another party)after many years in the wilderness and because it may not happen again, they gave up on their principles. They have already had to apologise on at least one of the policies they left behind in their manifesto. Someone even made a joke video of the Lib Dem leader's apology. Publicly he had to react to it and be gracious.
The hurt is happening and the policies that will really hurt the guy in the street have been given their support hence what is happening in 2013. Many will find income reduced whether in work or not as most of the essentials we need in our daily lives are continuing to increase(rent, utility bills, water rates, council tax)but they are introducing new charges and fees that will reduce a households income still further and may see some struggling to keep a rood over their heads and much of the help that people depend on from the State is being frozen, removed or replaced but they say that they want to keep the Conservatives anchored to the centre ground.
Mind they also say that Labour cannot be trusted to run the economy...make what you will of that looking at where we are at present.
It is damage limitation and they are watching their backs for the run up to the next election. I doubt that there are many more important policies to be released between now and then. The Conservatives have managed to get all they really wanted through Parliament and the Lib Dems have not put up much of an opposition. So even if they try to halt some of the remaining plans or amend them, most of the population could care less about what remains on the agenda.
Over all if you visit many sites, forums or watch political programmes the opinion of experts and the public that speak few if any believe that the Lib Dems will do well in the coming years if ever again.
Our main parties are now too similar in nature and most politicians are seen as professionals who often have no experience of life outside of an elitist education, they are usually from a business world often with inherited wealth(quite a few in the Government at present are millionaires)so that causes accusations of being out of touch with most of the population and many who go into politics are younger these days and then manage to stay their for decades.
But the only alternatives to me that are sometimes put forward as a way to worry and give the present parties a bloody nose lean the same way and could be even more extreme than what we have already.
Those are the BNP and UKIP.
Interesting but troubled times...I dislike where UK politics are at present and wonder if there is for good or bad a change coming and whether I will live to see it or will leave the world as disillusioned as I feel now. Or being the age I have reached if I am really bothered.
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