They're not voting because...
- The labour party seem more akin to a...
The labour party seem more akin to a marketting agency, with short-term populist policies, and seem to have developed a worrying disregard for due democratic process (control orders etc.).
As for Michael Howard and the tories, his immature pandering to readers of the tabloid rags might cut it for the local university wing of the party, but to see the party as a whole behaving in this way, and to know that alledgedly mature members of society believe their outlandish promises scares me.
The liberals seem to lack any direction; any real substantial politics; they seem destined to remain the 3rd party.
written 8th Apr 2005