The Budget

[flammableBen]

I'd like to see a Thatcher-esque type in charge again.

Sure she upset alot of people, but she got the fucking job done.

I wonder what would have happened had Blair been in charge when the Argies invaded the Falklands......  

Maggie wasn't afraid to stand up to any cunt, regardless of who she/he/they where and she both took England out of a serious recession and put the Great into Britain.

Again I don't really follow it that closely but for me it all seems to be a case of voting for "The best of a bad bunch" really.

Oh and Gordon Brown turned out to be a bit of a wet blanket didn't he.

No offense BR (well a bit of offense maybe), but you're talking a lot of rhetoric style bollocks. It's easy to say stuff like "Yay Great Britain", but the only way we're still powerful on the global stage is through our relatively strong economy and our diplomatic relations with all the countries we used to basically own.

Real current day world; we have to accept we're no longer a world super power, and despite playing with the Falklands, we weren't then either.

Globalisation has made the "West" powerful, but that's the "West" as a whole. Not us individually.

On a domestic front, if we'd gone for the Thatcher style "no society" over the last decade, we'd be a hell of a lot more fucked economically wise.

[flammableBen]

I think the main point with Labour that has pissed people off is the 'pay now, tax later' policy, the latter part of the policy coming into effect now.

There were supposedly reserves when Blair became Prime Minister, now we have debts. The Government want people to have less debt but there own is increasing. Politicians are hypocrites.

I think that's some more classic meaningless rhetoric. The whole thing is always a cycle. I hate to say it, but Gordan Brown didn't do a bad job as chancellor, good god I don't agree with all his shizzle. But we've got a stable(ish) economy at a time when the worlds super power is struggling big time.

Not that I'd ever vote for them, but it annoys me that the tories are so pathetic as opposition. It annoys me even more that the libdems have imploded on themselves. They should have never got rid of Charles Kennedy.

[Batch]

Those tories will win the next election, which is a bit mental considering how much of a non-party they've become. A lot of the Labour goverment's doings has been pretty much in line with a centre leaning conservative government, which has left them struggling for alternative policies,

I agree, and I'm not sure they will win for the reasons you say.

For the first time in my adult life I probably won't vote. I used to hate people wasting their vote, but I can now see the point that there is no point in voting.

[axs]

Those tories will win the next election, which is a bit mental considering how much of a non-party they've become. A lot of the Labour goverment's doings has been pretty much in line with a centre leaning conservative government, which has left them struggling for alternative policies,

I agree, and I'm not sure they will win for the reasons you say.

For the first time in my adult life I probably won't vote. I used to hate people wasting their vote, but I can now see the point that there is no point in voting.

just remember there are dozens of fun ways to spoil a ballot paper.

[donkey]

Those tories will win the next election, which is a bit mental considering how much of a non-party they've become. A lot of the Labour goverment's doings has been pretty much in line with a centre leaning conservative government, which has left them struggling for alternative policies,

I agree, and I'm not sure they will win for the reasons you say.

For the first time in my adult life I probably won't vote. I used to hate people wasting their vote, but I can now see the point that there is no point in voting.

I think voting should be compulsory, but I think there should be a 'none of the above' box.  That would send a massive message to the apathetic, self serving lawyers in Westminster.  As this isn't the case, I would echo Axs point of spoiling your ballot paper, rather than not voting, if you don't think anyone is worth the vote.