SamuelRSmith said:
The problem is that, on the most fundamental level, Labour and Conservative are the same party. They both believe that Government is the solution to all our problems, just in slightly different ways. Liberal Democrats are just the same, and Greens/BNP are also for more Government. The only real different party is UKIP... but even they just want to remove the tyrants from Brussels, to give more power to the tyrants in Westminster. |
I agree with you, I was just saying Labour would back down on these kind of projects if pressured enough. The Conservatives seem to view media pressure as a challenge to stick with it, and they also have the Lib Dems to take the fall by pushing them out to announce anything negative like this.
I was most disappointed when the Conservatives stopped their opposition to PFI (Off-balance-sheet commercial ventures) that end up costing billions, are completely unaccountable and also unsustainable no matter what your political colour.
The Lib Dems are also finished as a third party because they completely gave in on tuition fees, nuclear, Europe, the NHS, and civil liberties (all their supposed core issues). Not even negotiating a compromise like most expected, just giving up.
What I would most like in a politician is for them to stick to their word at election time and be impossible to buy out as a special interest. Their exact policies are less relevant because as you say all parties have the same ideology these days.
I lol'd when there was literally no candidate in my area representing a party opposing the Digital Economy bill, another civil liberties thing that went by unnoticed.
