SamuelRSmith said:
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I think it's more than ideology is gone from politics and all of them will act how they are being paid the most to do and can get away with (usually: abusing expenses, passing lobbied-for legislation, and handing out government contracts to their friends). Their manifestos will have whatever seems popular at the time and then when they get elected they can throw all of that out and do what the previous government did under a new name. The actual problems with the coutry get overlooked because they are actually hard to solve.
This NHS reorganisation, for example. Will cost a lot, inconvenience many people, probably lead to some services being shut down as they are given to private operators, probably will lead to increased costs as private operators demand more to run things. Regardless of whether you are left or right these effects are pretty clear, because they happened for every other reorganisation or part-privatisation of a government service in the UK since the 50s. But will it have any real effect on the structure of the NHS or the nature of the service it provides? Don't think so. At least the "old" Conservatives had a clear plan (dismantle the NHS) and Labour had one (fund the NHS as much as possible) and they both stuck to it.
