[joeysteele]

I voted yes as I believe a right mix of left and right policies can and should work if they are carried out in fairness,justice and with compassion and real understanding.

There was an attempt to have a 'new' party and politics in the 80s with the formation of the SDP that then formed an alliance with the then Liberals and finally they were merged into what is now the Liberal Democrats.

What annoys me is, that the Lib Dems joined this Coalition rightly in my view but then abandoned near all its main policies as to the cuts, tuition fees, VAT and the NHS.

A new party I doubt would or could get off the ground now,however, the most annoying thing about Politics at present is that as the real policy divisions become less apparant,there are loads of what is called 'concensus' politicians in all parties.
In my view, no one party has all the right policies and none have all wrong policies of the major parties.

I hope for the day,though it likely may never come when those consensus Politicians and MPs in all parties, in particular take a stand and really stand up strongly for more of concensus politics.
That would be the greatest advance in Politics and would also help end this nonsense of Govts coming in and spending loads of time and funds reversing what the previous Govt did before them just from an idealogical perspective.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I voted yes as I believe a right mix of left and right policies can and should work if they are carried out in fairness,justice and with compassion and real understanding.

There was an attempt to have a 'new' party and politics in the 80s with the formation of the SDP that then formed an alliance with the then Liberals and finally they were merged into what is now the Liberal Democrats.

What annoys me is, that the Lib Dems joined this Coalition rightly in my view but then abandoned near all its main policies as to the cuts, tuition fees, VAT and the NHS.

A new party I doubt would or could get off the ground now,however, the most annoying thing about Politics at present is that as the real policy divisions become less apparant,there are loads of what is called 'concensus' politicians in all parties.
In my view, no one party has all the right policies and none have all wrong policies of the major parties.

I hope for the day,though it likely may never come when those consensus Politicians and MPs in all parties, in particular take a stand and really stand up strongly for more of concensus politics.
That would be the greatest advance in Politics and would also help end this nonsense of Govts coming in and spending loads of time and funds reversing what the previous Govt did before them just from an idealogical perspective.

Another great post, Joey.