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Originally Posted by bananarama
Well understand your bitterness. Especially on your first vote.....Your judgment is not at fault. Sadly what you will see as you go through life is that all polititions from all parties are liars and toe rags....
I nearly voted lib at the general for the first time in my voting life (now aged 70). I too am glad I did not. My main venom is aimed at the Tories. First 25 years of my voting life went to the Tories. However i just happened to join the civil service when Thatcher was elected (with my help I voted for the scum bag).
It was then in the civil service with access to information that I learned what a bunch of criminals and money wasting liars they are.......Now I despise them as the political scum they are along with the vermin Lib dems.
Don't think much of labour either but would choose them any day over the political scum of the lib/con pact......
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Yes you are right that they are liars,it was why I felt I could not vote for Labour or the Tories,although on policy in the main although they hide the detail. largely they do what they outline as major policy when in govt.
My gripe this election is not with the Tories,they are doing what their policy was stated as (although I consider it wrong especially on the NHS),the wrong thing is that they have got no mandate to do the policies from the voters.
I believed Clegg when he said the only voice that matters is the voters, that MPs have to be accountable to the voters and after the expenses scandal that trust had to be restored in politics.
I am not joking when I say that many Students were almost stalked by Lib Dem candidates and party workers stressing the importance of voting against the Tories to stop increases in tuition fees and to make sure the recovery was not put at risk with Tory savage cuts in the first year.
I trusted their word and promises,they got mine and many other first time voters votes and then they used the power in the seats they got to give to the Tories what the voters would not, an overall mandate to do their cuts right away and tripling tuition fees.
That to me is getting votes under false pretences.
Who to vote for as to myself in the future is now easy though, I will vote to get rid of or defeat any Lib Dem candidate and for any party that can beat them in the seat I vote in. I will also help any party in by elections anywhere to defeat the Lib Dem candidate while Clegg is leader.
You are right indeed and I greatly respect your opinion and experience of politics, it would seem they are all in the main liars and toe rags, that shouldn't be how it is in the UK and for me a promise is a promise and the Lib Dems under Clegg have broken enough for and to me that will make me avoid voting for them likely ever again.
Thank you for your enlightenment to your experience of the Thatcher era too, I found what you said interesting,thank you for sharing that.