I appreciate your view but its a bit different where I am. Its a Labour stronghold and if the Tories get in overall, Scots will almost certainly vote for independance which I strongly disagree with. The SNP have been pretty rotten in Scottish government and we have had an odd mish-mash of two parties in charge - a glimpse of what a hung parliament might be like perhaps - so its hard to judge who to blame for the mess we are in.
You have to admit - Labour/Brown can't be blamed for everything of the last 13 years. Would the Tories have dealt with the economic crisis any better? I think not.
Ah right. Yes I think in a choice between Labour or SNP, I still wouldn't vote Labour but at least I'd need to think about it.
I don't blame Labour for everything wrong with the last 13 years but to be honest, the economy is the least of my concerns. Labour could have regulated the banks better but the economic crisis was an ineveitable train wreck really.
No, my main concern with Labour is all the little ways they've made us less free. Allow me to quote a post I made on another forum:
'My opinion on Labour has very little to do with economy.
It's about not being able to go to a pub & have a cigarette, it's about not being able to go to the pub & afford a pint, it's about not being able to walk down the street without being captured on CCTV, it's about relentless fuel tax increases, relentless nagging on television.... don't do this, don't do that, don't don't don't.
It's about Labour letting the utility companies rape us daily, it's about being able to get on a plane without being 'naked body scanned' (and if you think that's to do with terrorism as opposed to trying to put people off flying then you're living in a dream world), it's about ID cards, the endless ripping to shreds of the education system.
They STILL have the blatant ageism of minimum wage at a lower rate for under 21s & the blatant ageism surrounding unemployment & housing benefit, they haven't renationalised the railways but even so they've managed to meddle & poke & prod & make things worse.
Billions wasted in Iraq, billions bailing out the banks because they failed to regulate them.
Speed cameras every 50 yards, people getting fined because their bin lid is open by an inch. The list could go on & on & on & on.
I simply do not care if the Tories are worse, I've had to live through this bunch of b***ards for 13 years, I've earned the right to find out one way or the other. '
I was quite proud of that post, but not proud enough that I was going to type it all again from scratch!