Reverting To Political Type

[poliphilo]

The closer we draw to the election, the more I find my contempt for the crimes and betrayals of New Labour being washed away by my  visceral dislike of the Tories. I don't suppose I'm alone in this. The thought of the country being run by a bunch of old Etonians and Bullingdonians makes my skin crawl.

Gordon Brown should step aside now (pleading poor eyesight perhaps) and hand over to someone younger and less tainted.  Could David Milliband avert a Tory landslide? Yes, I think he could.  In fact he might even win.

Comments

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Whatever the personalities or the policies of the day, I can't help feeling that the Tories are the party for "hang on to what you've got" and Labour are the party for "make the world a better place". I ask myself what people I admire over the centuries might have voted: Jesus, Ghandi, Buddha etc. etc. and I can't see any of them voting Tory, somehow.

But what we actually get these days from both sides is focus group politics. Never mind what we stand for, what we believe in, it's what can we sell to enough people to keep us in power? Ultimately that's why it is all corrupt. I sneakily admire Cameron and Osborne last week for talking about cuts. But I ain't gonna vote for any party with Boris Johnson in it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Boris Johnson is amusing enough- and pretty smart under all that calculated bumbling- but I don't want to see him- and his highly developed sense of entitlement- anywhere near government.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Sounds just like our own politics over here in the US! We vote Liberal, and get semi-Conservative, half-assed concessions. A plague on ALL their houses!