OK, I'll concede Ron Paul.

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Well, that was the European (UK, Germany, France) status quo about 10-20 years ago. That's certainly changed in the UK, and now both the Conservatives and Labour support similar things, the only difference is charisma and credibility (with Con marginally above Lab on this), not policy. And those things seem to be socially conservative (taking away our rights) and economically inconsistent (being free market but then handing out subsidies and bailouts, and spending so much on useless contractors (read Private Eye)).

Liberal Democrats... have some good ideas, and I'm going to end up voting for them, but our system means they can never form a government. They are the best of the three by a small margin. Historically their problem is that they don't have a single driving policy or position, but instead of fixing that, the other two parties have joined them in the sea of generality and flavour-of-the-month. Which is bad. I'd rather have consistent, honest and wrong politicians than this. At least we could see their failures and blame them.

But none of them is worse than the Republicans/Democrats yet. At least we have the NHS and our education is in a better state. Both are changing for the worse though, starting with paying-for-dentists and the new university fees.

Correct. However I am politically extreme. So are the Republicans who protested (because of their hypocrisy). Is there anyone who falls into neither category who supported the protests?