Showing posts with label How should I vote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How should I vote. Show all posts

Thursday, September 18, 2014

We are better off together !

The truth is we are more together than we are as the sum of our parts.

It has disappointed me that the positive aspects of Britain - including what the Welsh, English and Irish bring to our joint nation has been underplayed in the fascist blood and soil arguments of the SNP and the sometimes negative response of the No campaign.

For 300 years we've had each other backs and until the irresponsible disaster of devolution have had proud identities but shared values and friendships.

Its worth Scots fighting to put right what is wrong, not retreating to isolationism and the just surrendering all key aspects of their lives to the EU superstate. ( Who do you think will handle the current Scottish Banking crisis with more sympathy - Frankfurt or London ? Remember it primarily the English who have paid for and saved the Scottish banks - and without complaint ).

There will need to be some re balancing of the UK to provide the Justice that England has been denied and the likes of the Lib Dems still want to deny us with their anti-English Balkanisation policy, but that can be sorted with our famous pragmatism and some generosity.

Vote to stay, vote to stay British, vote to stay family and friends, Vote No to Alex Salmond's isolationist and separatist vision.


Thursday, May 06, 2010

Who should I vote for ?

This is a question that it looks like many people are going to leave till they are alone with their ballot papers asking themselves the quintennial question - is it a tick or a cross on the ballot paper?

Matt apparently has a great cartoon on this this morning if your interested.

In some ways its been the X-Factor / Strictly politics election, perhaps we're expecting some sort of sing off at the end ?

The problem is after 10pm tonight the problems will have just started and we need people in power who can sort them out. And here's the hint - those are not the people who created them.

Most people realise that the full implications of Labour's scorched earth policy haven't yet been shown.

In short Labour funded its spending on a boom in private debt ( which it taxed through stamp duty, vat and the increased taxes on the higher economic activity ) and then more and more on sovereign debt. There have been no end of off balance sheet spending and spending commitments.

Some of us know in our heads this can't last. Now with the eruptions in Greece our hearts are getting a look at the consequences.

That's why the most responsible action you can take today is to vote Conservative.

Nothing else will do.

The Lib Dems could ( and their activists would heavily favour this option ) support Labour. That would result in a government that went for tax and denial rather than rebalancing the economy and growth like the Conservatives would do. Its worth noting that little fuss has been made of the triple lock procedure which ties the hands of the Lib Dem leader - so you might like Clegg - but he doesn't have the power to make a deal. Everyone knows that Lib Dem activists are mainly to the left and many to the left of Labour - you can work out what that means; ie Vote Lib Dem get Brown.

I have a lot of sympathy with the aims of UKIP and The English Democrats - but good folk your votes only make the Lab-Lib Dem pact of decline more likely. A Conservative government most closely represents your aims of the two on offer - please vote for it ! ( Its a secret ballot and no one will know ).

For the sake of our country and for everyone's future - please vote Conservative today.