Conference season

[alexsarll]

I find it disgusting enough when Labour use the 'wasted vote' argument against anyone planning to do other than support the Red Tories/Blue Tories Punch & Judy show, what with Labour having themselves been a fringe party not so very long ago. But for the Lib Dems to start parroting it against voting for anyone smaller than themselves is just staggering. Between this and Nick Klegg, sorry, Clegg buying into the public sector cuts bidding war rather than asking the questions so many people now want asked about when the bankers will be giving our bloody money back, I'm increasingly wondering whether to bother voting Lib Dem next General Election after all. Except under Wee Charlie Kennedy (please come back, Charlie) it's seldom been so much that I actually like their policies as a case of "when faced with a choice of evils, I pick the one I've not tried yet" (good old Mae West). The more indistinguishable they become from the other two (still this obsession with chasing the centre ground, rather than offering voters anything like a real choice), the less that justification holds. Obviously at national level the Green manifesto normally has more holes than a fair-trade organic basket, but I'm still tempted to vote for them now out of sheer spite.

Comments

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know the Lib Dems have been involved with some really nasty leaflets in various local elections - between which and their uselessness as stewards of Islington, this is why I don't vote for them in locals. But I like that looseness as a party, gets things a little further away from the party centralisation which has gradually wrecked British politics since Parliament's heyday.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

By heyday, you do of course mean when it was elected by property-owning males?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Not really, given it runs at least to the point where Chamberlain was forced out by Leo Amery et al.