Politics is Rubbish

Politics in Britain is rubbish. Genuinely rubbish. If, like me, at the last election you voted for the Liberal Democrats, it's even more rubbish. See, I don't like the Tories and I don't like Labour. So I went out and voted for the Lib Dem's. The Lib Dem's then used the votes given to them by people like me and joined up with the Tories. Thus we have a Tory government. You can see why this has me a bit merked. It would be like going to Burger King and ordering a Whopper but then getting a Big Mac because Burger King had decided to go into a partnership with McDonalds but have also decided to no longer sell their own food. Essentially, Britain is now like walking into a Burger King but all the food is being sold by Ronald McDonald. It doesn't attract anyone. The Burger King fans are annoyed because they can't have a Whopper and the Mcdonalds fans are annoyed because they've got to eat their McNuggets in an unfamiliar interior. It's all a giant mess.

Disgusted by what has happened, I've decided no longer to support the Lib Dem's. They will not have my vote again, unless all the people who were responsible for making this decision leave the party. This is going to take a while. I am morally and ethically opposed to the Tory Party, so they are out as well. I am neither a racist nor a fascist so the BNP is a definite no. I'm actually reasonably pro Europe so UKIP won't be getting my vote. I'd rather wipe my bum with sand paper than vote for any party linked to George Galloway and I think the Green Party is a wasted vote. That all leaves Labour.

I'm not sure about Labour. Never have been. Labour will always be the party of Tony Blair to me. The party that led us into an illegal war in Iraq and the party that pretty much 0amde us into a CC-TV nation. What with ID cards and everything else, Labour's genuine disregard for our civil and personal liberties is the biggest reason to NOT vote for them in my eyes. That being said, Unemployment did drop for quite a while under the Labour government and they did bring in the minimum wage too which has been a giant positive step in worker/employer relations. Forcing employers by law to pay workers a guaranteed minimum amount was a huge victory for every day to day working person and I hope we never forget what a momentous act it was. That being said, I'm still not a Labour supporter and as of right now they do not have my vote.

The reasons are mostly due to my own prejudices’ but also due to the fact that I am getting increasingly annoyed by their form of opposition. The Labour approach to opposition these days is to basically come out and say "the government is doing everything wrong. WRONG I SAY!". Now, this is perfectly fine, for a party who've just announced a new leader and are trying to find their voice. Ed Milliband has been Labour for quite a while now. Even longer than quite a while actually. In fact, you could probably say he's been leader for a decent amount of time. He's certainly been leader enough to actually have some policies by now. Problem is, Eddy Baby doesn't have any policies. I mean literally he has none. Not a single one. I couldn't tell you his stance on anything. All I can tell you about Edward Von Milliband Esq is that he thinks David Cameron is rubbish. He thinks David Cameron is a bad prime minster. That's it. That's all I know about his political views. I'm sorry but how am I supposed to do anything with that? You'd expect him to think that David Cameron is a rubbish PM because otherwise he'd be in the government and not THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION. The clue is kind of in the name there really.

What really set me off was Millibands latest performance in Prime Minsters Questions. Mills took Cam-Bone to task for doing a U-Turn on his cheaper alcohol policy. He made a joke about how Camzilla couldn't organise a you-know-what in a brewery. Everyone on the labour side laughed and guffawed (somewhat like Tories from the 80's actually) and clapped away because Millidizzle had smacked Cam-Dog with a giant zinger. It was a reasonably good line that I'm sure Eddy had practiced in the mirror 50 times before PMQ's. It really wound me up though. It would be one thing to take a cheap shot at the PM if you had something else to offer instead but Labour have nothing. Literally nothing. I've yet to see Ed Milliband declare a stance on anything yet. I'm begging him to come up with a policy. Seriously, any policy. "No more money for nuclear weapons", "More money for nuclear weapons", "More immigration", "less immigration", "disband the house of lords", "free corsets for the under five's", ANYTHING!!!

To all Labour supporters I really only have one question. Why do you support them? It can't be because you connect with their values and policies because they don't have any. I have come to the conclusion that the only people who support Labour are people who think the Tories are rubbish and just want to vote for somebody different in the vague hope that different = better. If that's the way you are going to be, you might as well not vote. I will only vote for someone if I think they are going to do a better job than the person already voted in. That's the whole point of politics as far as I'm concerned. You vote someone in, they do something, someone else comes along and says how they would do it differently and then you base your next voting decision on that information. This has now been twisted to the point that you vote for someone but they then join up with someone completely opposite allowing them to get into power, they do something, someone else comes along and says they are doing a bad job but gives no information on how they would do it differently and then you somehow try and work out how the frick you're going to vote. NO WONDER LESS THAN 50% OF THE ELECTORATE VOTES!!!!

People seem fixated that Ed Milliband sounds a bit weird and looks kind of nerdy. All the commentators seem to care about is his personality or lack there of. This is immaterial. Ed Milliband could have the charisma of a damp rag and the personality of a nursery school janitor and STILL get into power if people felt he had any idea on how to run the country. Look at John Major for proof that personality is no where near as important as people thinking you'd be better at the job than the other guy. Maggie Thatcher (the Baboon from the Lagoon) was pretty widely disliked and seen as an un-caring person who stole kids milk money but she appeared to have the better policies (And unlike Blair she won her war) than Michael Foot who's manifesto for the 1983 election was called "The longest suicide note in political history". Say what you want about Thatcher, Major or Foot but by gum they knew where they stood and they weren't afraid to show it.

This insistency from politicians to try and get away from policies and beliefs is that eventually no party will have a clear idea on anything and extreme right wing and left wing parties (Like the BNP and Greens) will see a surge in their popularity for the simple reason that they actually believe in something. Labour need to show us where they stand and what they plan to do, otherwise the already waning interest in politics in this country will continue it's never ending erosion.