Decision Time for UK Voters

Sorry if things have been a little slow of late here at Global Changes. I have been off on my travels and struggled to find flights to London due to a rather prolific volcano in Iceland. But I’m back, and just in time for one of the biggest weeks in British politics for Decades.

Tomorrow will be the first General Election where any of the 3 leading parties could actually win in (my) living memory. But this is not a good thing. We are not choosing between 3 worthy candidates, we are being forced to choose the lesser of many evils. Our votes are not being cast for who we agree with the most. Instead people are more motivated to vote for who they disagree with the least. This is not democracy. This is Politics: a outdated, irrelevant, pompous, ignorant farce. Giving us the public the illusion that we actually get a say in our country.

So lets take a look at the “Options” for those about to Vote:

Labour

Labour are massively incompetent, quite ignorant and fairly stupid. They have not broken Britain as the Tories will claim, they have simply made us broke. Labours biggest crime of their previous years in office has been their hideously wasteful spending. For more on this you can read my previous post on the Failings of Government. Labours spending behaviour often resembled that of how I imagine a group of pre-school children, were they given No.10′s annual budget. Spending Millions on things that seem cool, that they then get bored of after 10 minutes and end up throwing away. Their intentions are good (well at least they think they are), but Labour have not supplied us with a satisfactory form of democracy or government in their term in office, and for this reason you should not vote for them. Rewarding a lesser failure than the previous administration should not be acceptable.

Conservatives

The Tories are severely outdated, irrelevant, ignorant, prejudice old men that should have no place in politics or this country. They are a dying breed of Brits from a dying time and they know it. They however do have one thing on their side. Wealth. And they are using it to try to persuade the country that a vote for them is a vote for change. The only change it would bring is the change back to the old ways of feeding the rich and repressing the poor.

Make no mistake. A vote for the Conservative party is a vote against years of progress. It is not a step back. It is a giant leap back. Do not think that it is your only option if you do not want to vote Labour. Both Tories & Labour will tell you that a vote for the Lib Dems is a wasted one. But that is because they both know that this time they actually have a chance.

Liberal Democrats

For the first time in years, the Lib Dems actually have a realistic shot at winning the election. But only if people lose the stigma of them being inexperienced and unable to handle themselves in government. A stigma maintained only by the opposing parties. A Facebook poll of 500,000 voters put Nick Clegg with 41% of the votes yesterday, way ahead of both Gordon Brown and David Cameron. This is the only real vote for change. A vote for other parties would simply mean business as usual. Nick Clegg fared far better than his counter parts in the live debates and actually has policies that seem to be in the best interests of everyone. If you are going to vote, vote Lib Dem.

As for myself. I am not voting. I am not voting for a system I don’t believe in. Our political system doesn’t work. Politicians ignorantly spend more time trying to justify their jobs than they do doing them. The theatre of parliament is grotesque, outdated and irrelevant. I will not vote to keep it.

Coldplay – Politik