News Voting in the British Election: Who and Why?

[mgb_phys]

You don't know the US. We have a GOP in the nuthouse in which they believe:

We have an official monster raving loony party instead.

My hope is that Cameron and Clegg can bring opportunity to Brits and not hand outs. Handouts aggravate a problem,

Same handouts, different names. Labour hands out money to local authorities, conservatives will hand it out to BAe. A few naval dockyards will move from marginal labour constituencies in Scotland to marginal Conservative constituencies in the south west.

It's difficult to see quite what the Tories can do to be more favourable to big business and banks than Blair/Brown - introduce slavery perhaps?

 

[shoehorn]

Not to mind: the current lot won't last long. We'll be back to the polling stations within the year, I would imagine.

 

[mgb_phys]

Not to mind: the current lot won't last long. We'll be back to the polling stations within the year, I would imagine.

When there is a choice between a centre-right labour party run by (a choice of two) oxbridge professional politicians that have spent their whole lives in party jobs, AND a centre-right tory party run by an oxbridge professional politician who has never done anything but party jobs.

 

[shoehorn]

When there is a choice between a centre-right labour party run by (a choice of two) oxbridge professional politicians that have spent their whole lives in party jobs, AND a centre-right tory party run by an oxbridge professional politician who has never done anything but party jobs.

I must admit that the fact that they're career politicians doesn't overly worry me. I'd imagine that it's far better to have that sort of experience when slithering around Westminster as a party leader than it is to have come from a life in business or the military, say.

Similarly, although I'm hardly impartial on this, I have little problem with the leaders happening to have been through Oxbridge. A more significant problem seems to be that almost the entire cabinet is stuffed with them.

 

[mgb_phys]

I must admit that the fact that they're career politicians doesn't overly worry me

It worries me that the sort of person who has planned every step since the age of 18 toward becoming a politician - becomes a politician.

I have little problem with the leaders happening to have been through Oxbridge.

Me neither - I have a PhD from one of them.

It's more the CV = PPE at Oxford, same college as previous leader, intern with Party think tank, job as junior researcher to cabinet member, rises through ranks with backing of senior figure. And it makes no difference which party they claim to believe in.

At least with monarchs you get an occasional revolution or war which switches the succession - this lot is more like joining the dark side of the force.