Election Research: The Result
May. 6th, 2010 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
same_differenceWell there's not been time to really read through things, to hunt down the obvious diversions and falsehoods in the manifestos and put them to light.
So instead I'm going to go with the pessimists view:
We're all screwed. The hung parliament is going to be a disaster. The smaller parties will fight tooth and nail for their own corner ignoring the wider implications; the two major parties are going to block each other in a desperate bit of preparing for the next election one-upmanship the Lib Dems are going to flounder when they discover they actually have some real power. The public told not to worry about the size of the deficit aren't going to accept the cuts and tax raises we're going to have, and the unions will strike their workers into joblessness and poverty.
So that's my 'realistic' pessimists view. Taking that and my prior comments as the basis, I'm going to vote for the Local MP. All reports these days suggest he's competent, and he should be after 18 years of doing the job. If things go as badly as the pessimist in me suggests, I'd rather have someone who knows the area and the job fighting for this little section of the UK, rather than a newcomer who'll be too busy learning the job to be doing the job.
So instead I'm going to go with the pessimists view:
We're all screwed. The hung parliament is going to be a disaster. The smaller parties will fight tooth and nail for their own corner ignoring the wider implications; the two major parties are going to block each other in a desperate bit of preparing for the next election one-upmanship the Lib Dems are going to flounder when they discover they actually have some real power. The public told not to worry about the size of the deficit aren't going to accept the cuts and tax raises we're going to have, and the unions will strike their workers into joblessness and poverty.
So that's my 'realistic' pessimists view. Taking that and my prior comments as the basis, I'm going to vote for the Local MP. All reports these days suggest he's competent, and he should be after 18 years of doing the job. If things go as badly as the pessimist in me suggests, I'd rather have someone who knows the area and the job fighting for this little section of the UK, rather than a newcomer who'll be too busy learning the job to be doing the job.
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Date: 2010-05-06 10:40 pm (UTC)2. I think a hung Parliament is the best we can hope for at the moment, but I may be overestimating the maturity of UK politicians.
3. I have a meeting with Manila at 8.30 tomorrow. Argh.
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Date: 2010-05-06 11:40 pm (UTC)Good luck with that meeting
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Date: 2010-05-07 05:49 pm (UTC)I fully intend to continue to evaluate each side on it's merits at each election, and will endeavour to not write any them off (Exceptions for things like the BNP) not withstanding.
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Date: 2010-05-07 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-07 10:35 pm (UTC)It's just I'm doing my own research, rather than relying on their and my friends' understanding of the issues.