Kantor said:
That logic makes about as much sense as not voting Lib Dem because Lloyd-George was a Liberal, and he negotiated a Treaty of Versailles which made Germany angry but let it survive and indirectly led to WWII. Because, see, I wasn't aware that Thatcher and Lloyd-George were running in this election. Have you listened to Cameron? He's left of Brown! |
I utterly abhor partisan politics so I'm not gonna say what party should or shouldn't win. But that statement you make is pretty incredulous in any real sense. The Conservative party is fundamentally incapable of having a policy agenda that is left of Labour, hence the relative ideological colour of the respective leaders is largely irrelevant (the PM has a measure of influence over the ideological direction of policy, but policy is set by a much broader crosss section of the party which would tend to drag the leader's personal prefereneces more towards the party's centre which means left-ish for Labour and right-ish for the Conservatives). It's also likely that Cameron is only left of Brown up to election day. After election day (assuming the Conservatives get the majority) Cameron's colours will probably turn a distinct shade of blue. Remember GWB's compassionate conservatism, what happened to that?
Anyway Conservative / Labour doesn't really matter. None of the parties have a clue about how to fix the important problems because the major socio-economic problems are global in nature but each country is trying to sort the global shit out imagining that putting in place national solutions will do the trick.
Oh yeah, polling on XBL (or any other console online service) isn't anonymous, so while this poll is pretty harmless just remember that you are / can be watched if you start answering polls of a different nature.
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