What general election?
General election? What general election? Oh yeah, the one that’s coming up in the not-too-distant future I guess.
Probably explains all those huge political campaigning advertisements I keep seeing everywhere. The one’s promoting all those wonderful brand new policies the political parties are pushing. Those policies that will get us out of all the mess that the… er… politicans got us into.
Couple of examples then. This one, spotted just across the road from Bedford’s County Hall (though I believe its called something else nowadays, ever since they changed the structure of the local government herebouts)…
That’ll be the Tories then, with their brand new “get the country back on its feet” policy of “let’s all trash Labour”.
And then just around the corner, not more than a couple of hundred yards or so away, we have this. Not put out by the Labour Party as such, but by Unison. Nevertheless, the sentiment’s quite clear: let’s help Labour get the country back on its feet with their brand new policy of “let’s all trash the Tories”…
Now if I were going to vote in this forthcoming general election (which I’m not, but that’s another story entirely), this sort of “bash the other lot” sloganeering would be guaranteed to put me right off voting for either Labour or the Tories.
If that’s indicative of their ethics as politicians (which of course it is) then neither party are worth a light.
But then, there’s nothing quite like trying to scare the electorate into voting for you, is there?
Truth is of course, they can’t be pushing their “brand new policies” because in reality its all just the same old same old.
Neither party (and I’m inclined to include the LibDems in this as well) are capable any longer of coming up with truly innovative and imaginative policies and consequently there’s not a lot to choose between any of them.
Moreover, regardless of the “promises” they may make in the run-up to elections we all know it’ll count for nothing as soon as they secure the power they’re so desperately hungering for.
And that of course is what it’s all about. Nothing to distinguish the parties at all nowadays. They’re all just shuffling for the top spot and will say virtually anything to get the voters to put them into office.
Basically, its all a load of bullshit. It’d make a pleasant change to just once hear a politician argue for something they really and genuinely believe as opposed to mouthing off stuff they think people want to hear.
An opinion that comes straight from the heart rather than one that’s been meticulously thrashed out by a committee or moulded by focus groups.
But then, that requires some sort of sincerity. And integrity. And… er… honesty.
