I've got to agree with Michael. Labour tried to play the class war card
by saying they were going after the tax-dodgers, but at the same time
they completely bought into the 'we've got to balance the books first
and worry about social justice later' philosophy, which is basically the
Conservative philosophy, so it's no surprise that voters of no fixed
conviction ended up voting Conservative. Why get your Conservative
policies off the Labour party when you can get them straight off the
Conservatives? Which is basically the same reason the Lib Dems got wiped
out.
If Labour had said 'We're going to look after the most vulnerable
members of society properly, and if that means putting taxes up, we'll
put taxes up' then probably they still wouldn't have won - given the
overwhelmingly right-wing slant of most press coverage, not to mention
Milliband's extreme lack of charisma as a leader - but at least we would
have had a genuine alternative to vote for.
I voted Green.
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