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They are still drawing dead in a general election unless they severely alter the level of nuttiness in their policies.
The problem is they shift the line to the right. Even Labour is far to the right on immigration policy, pretty much where the Tories should be. **** even the Lib Dems are quite far to the right, they should be the policy party talking up the benefits of widespread immigration, largely copying the policies of the other two larger parties in a basically three party system is just pathetic.
The problem I have is there is a general election in a year and whilst my area is a lock to vote Labour (making my vote effectively meaningless) I will still do so on principle and immigration is one of the policies I will evaluate on.
I refuse to vote Labour for running a huge deficit much of it off the books during a boom, at least until we are a full generation away from the Blair and Brown years.
Lib Dems have slid backwards as they decided to transition from never expecting power to really hoping for another coalition government so they have more realistic policies - no tuition fees was a ****ing joke policy but the rest was decent and principled social progressiveness, they have actually done a lot of good in the coalition and should be 100% proud of everything they have had implemented such as removing the income tax on the lowest earners, of course they then went and got behind the ****ing bedroom tax and all that other bollocks.
While the Tories are doing well on the economy given the difficult starting position they are seriously in danger of losing my meaningless support if they move to the right on social policies to block UKIP drawing away support. I fully support NHS reform and the idea by Labour that everything is great and doesnt need to be changed, just throw more money at it is a joke.
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Anyway, I figure this all comes down to what Scotland decides. If they vote yes to independent its Conservative all the way down, hopefully they are smart and abandon the fringe right and start talking sense, I would dig that. If they vote no then I figure we are in a Lab-Lib coalition short of the economy doing really well (and people feeling it).