Talk of a possible snap General Election prompts thoughts of who I'd actually vote for. One of the problems of being vaguely to the left of Social Democracy is that you don't really have anyone to vote for: the prominent alternative left-wing parties of Britain are either Trotskyists, apologists for Stalin, or a strange mixture including the above.
So Labour are the only real option, although I'm not hugely enthusiastic about it. Either of the seats I'm eligible to vote in are pretty much safe for Labour anyway. I suppose my real plan will be to vote as tactically as possible in order to keep the Conservatives out.
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The politics of boredom are, one assumes, counter-revolutionary.
Probably. Bloody French students.
Vote tactically "in order to keep the Conservatives out".
Yawn. You're stuck in the last election.
Surely you realise that they're all as bad as each other. And that Britain is de facto bankrupt because of Gordon Brown's over-spending, so whoever comes in is going to be in the centre and will have to be high-tax (or non-low tax).
I.E. we don't have much of a choice, except to ACT. Our politics is stagnant, with corruption and incompetence at the top and some serious passivity below. Voting at the next General Election won't make anything better and it won't change anything.
Need a cigarette now...
Sounds like you'd be happier with some of the parties referred to in the post. ;-)
Anyhow, it's not quite true to say that the parties are as bad as each other. For all their faults, Labour gave us the minimum wage and civil partnerships, neither of which a Conservative government would even have suggested.
And it's those small nuggets of progress that make participation in the process worthwhile.
Wait until you get out of academia and studenthood and start paying the full cost of life in Britain. The mismanagment of the economy by New Labour and Gordon Brown is staggering. And I doubt that the Cons or Libs could have done better. But they might - might - have screwed things up with a little less arrogance.
Obviously, my ivory tower makes it hard to see what tough, street-level scrappers like yourself are up to. Might I inquire what you are doing to ACT?
LOL. I guess you have to be a PHD student to afford an ivory tower. Did you pay the correct inheritance tax on that?
I didn't say I was doing anything in the way of ACTion. And I don't recall saying anything to suggest that I am a "tough, street-level scrapper" (though I am tough; that goes without saying).
I'm merely suggesting that you aren't as exposed to the typical British cost of living as others are. Some of us have to get up in the morning to afford things...
You seem to forget that, like the majority of students not in a 1980s sitcom, I work in order to be able to afford my studies.
And what's with this 'anonymous' business, anyway?
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