The TFF General Election

I don't share Cameron's politics (or his vested interests), but his description of UKIP as a bunch of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet-racists" was spot on imo. You only have to look at their hideous leader to see what he means.

Labour's paternalism, embodied by people like Harriet Harman, is a real turn-off, but faced with a choice between Brown and Darling or Cameron and Osbourne, I'd choose the former every time.

Not a huge fan of Nick Clegg, and I think Vince Cable is massively over-rated, but a hung parliament represents the best chance of the electoral and political reform this county desperately needs. For that reason, it'll be the Lib Dems for me.

Well, I'm working away from home that day and have just done the deed by post. But I've not voted in the TFF poll so you'll have to guess....

"The richest people in Britain have seen a record boom in wealth in the past year. Their fortunes have soared by 30% even though much of the UK is struggling to recover from the recession and the near collapse of the banking system" ~ Quote: Sunday Times Rich list, today.

This is the largest rise in wealth since the list was first compiled 21 years ago, and coincides with the rebound in stock markets and property values since the Government pumped a record hundreds of billions of pounds (our money, my money; your money) into banks and the wider economy to stave off collapse.

The rich come through with flying colours as the hedge funds coin it in, and the stock market is doing fine. This, when the ordinary citizen is having to underwrite the huge injection of their money which underpinned the fabulous wealth of those who now exhort them to abandone that government in favour of the Silver Spoon Tories who would impose massive reductions in public services to begin to claw back that investment; public services that on the whole they have no need nor no desire for.

.....................and thus The First Turkey To Vote For Christmas comes on here and implies us to vote Conservative.

Please, THINK before you vote. Work out for yourselves what's been going on and what will happen in the future. Look around you at the boarded up businesses, look at your own circumstances and decide whether YOU will need those public services more than ever and then decide just who will care for them the best so that they are fit for purpose when you need them ~ that is if you don't already need them now.

Decide who would do most to cut their finances, now that the banks and the rich have been underpinned and vote with a bit of intelligence and tactically to keep the enemy of the working man out of power as they have been now for thirteen years in this country.

The general financial health of the world is not the fault of our government alone and they have to do whatever is necessary to maintain a law and order and prevent a collapse of the monetry system so that the ordinary people at least have access to their earnings........................imagine if you had done a month's work only to find your money locked into a collapsed bank to which you had no access ~ that's what the government had to avoid this past year and that's what's cost us all so dearly.....................we've had to buy our own earnings out of those damned banks!

People might come on here with their university political degrees and pontificate about "political rants" but then they don't live here do they? They don't need our public services do they?

Before you vote on May 6th ~ THINK!

Great to see the support for UKIP, thereby splitting the right-wing vote. Who said voting UKIP was a wasted vote?

Given what had happened, the Government had no choice but to step in or the inevitability of total social breakdown and possibly civil disorder and a general withdrawal of labour were surely there. I mean, would YOU have continued to go to work if you couldn't access your money?

So no-one can pretend that Government intervention was a cause of the breakdown of capitalism. It was down to the capitalists themselves, greed and disregard fro anything other than getting richer and richer and to hell with the consequences.

I don't blame the Labour government for bailing out the banks when they did, in fact they had no choice (Tory 'opposition' to the plan was just blatent electioneering).

What I do put at the Labour government's door is a) a failure to effectively regulate the banking system in the years before, b) wasteful spending on a whole range of beauracracies and pet projects (a Cameron jibe that has merit), and c) a failure to address the British economy's potentially fatal dependence of international finance and banking.

As for stuartb's comments about 'bullying', for God's sake, grow some balls. If you don't like what someone says, give some back, or pipe down.