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Originally Posted by Mystic Taboo
Labour stole the Tories clothes but there is a great deal of difference between them, Labour under Brown have half-heartedly gone along with free market social economics are now back to the good old days of tax and spend wheras the Tories are anti-Tax, on social issues you only need to speak to their members to understand that they are still very punishment orientated socially conservatibve and very non-politically correct. The main problem is that they have too many modernising wets who should be in the Liberal Democrats or at least shouldnt be in central office.
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I think that's a very important point. I wonder if voters are not so much apathetic as disorientated. There you are thinking you're a natural Tory or a natural Labour supporter and you find the Tory party and Labour don't remotely stand for what you believe in. Politics has got to return to the hands of the people of this country not the increasingly deluded in the Westminster bunker. While 45% or so of the vote went to NL, low turn-out meant that only 22% of the entire electorate voted them in. That is not a mandate and given the ghastly things they are doing to the country may in itself speak for the need for urgent reform of the electoral system. The point is 78% of voters did not vote for Blair. They're looking for someone to vote for? You know what they say about nature abhorring a vacuum.