Monday 3 May 2010

So now for whom do we vote?

We vote for whomsoever is grammatically and syntactically accurate. I've heard Clegg and Cameron use 'less' where they mean fewer, and thus (by a process of elimination), I'm left with Brown. Yes, he colluded with the financial industry to bankrupt us all - but so did Cameron. Yes, he launched an illegal war - but Cameron supported him. Clegg? Too rightwing, and I'm in a Tory/Labour marginal, so it's all down to minutiae, and I take my stand over 'fewer', especially as Brown had a free education and Cameron/Clegg's parents paid handsomely for their offspring.

Back Wednesday, Lugh permitting!

Meanwhile, voters should study this:

The state will become a Conservative fiefdom, with even local police forces directly run by Tory politicians in the name of "democratic accountability". The City of London will not be reformed. Wealth will become ever more concentrated in fewer hands. Scotland, Wales and many English regions will be devastated by swingeing public spending cuts – almost their sole economic prop for the last decade – and by ongoing de-industrialisation.
The management of an economy burdened by excessive private debt, fragile banks and a faltering economic recovery will be ideological. The prison population will grow even faster than under Labour as populist social repression intensifies.
There will be some worthwhile improvements – the scrapping of ID cards and aspects of the Big Society programme which has been too quickly dismissed by liberal critics – but in the round Britain will become a meaner, less generous and more unequal society despite David Cameron's declared intentions. This will be Murdoch's Britain, with the BBC to be cut back and Sky's influence extended. Government will be in thrall to the right of centre press. The sale of our companies to the highest foreign bidder will accelerate.

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