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This question is for John Simkin, but other replys are welcome. With your opinions what political parties are there at present that you are able to vote for?
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This question is for John Simkin, but other replys are welcome. With your opinions what political parties are there at present that you are able to vote for?
The Labour Party is the only party that I am currently able to vote for, even though I dislike the way in which New Labour is going – and for a number of reasons that John Simkin has set out. The alternatives, the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, simply don’t come into the equation in my thinking. I don’t think the Liberal Party is capable of holding office under its current leadership and we saw what happened the last time that the Conservatives were in charge. I would like to see New Labour (1) get us out of the mess that is Iraq a.s.a.p., (2) renationalise the railways (we currently have the most expensive and inefficient railway system in Europe), (3) scrap the National Curriculum and relieve teachers of the excessive bureaucracy they have to cope with, (4) raise taxes to improve public services. It is clear that the Labour Party has moved to the right under Tony Blair. It needed to move a bit to the right in order to increase its vote, however. It was clear that Clause 4 was not liked by most voters, for example.