Horribly astute commentray by Neil Clark in the First Post:
The result is that we have three parties now occupying what they claim to be 'the centre ground', but which in reality is anything but. As Seamus Milne pointed out in the Guardian, "The assumption that the broad Blair-Cameron consensus - social liberalism combined with free-market economics, privatisation, low taxes on the rich, and a welfare safety net - reflects the centre of gravity of public opinion is completely unfounded".
What all of this means is that the vast majority of Britons who don't sign up to the phoney Westminster elite consensus are effectively disenfranchised. On May 6 we can either vote for small parties who, largely ignored by the media and faced with an electoral system which perpetuates the status quo, have no chance of forming the next government, or we can stay at home mowing our lawns.
As Simon Jenkins said recently, just when you really need a Labour Party there isn't one to be found.
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This is a rubbish meme. Anybody with a brain cell knows 1997 onwards has ruined this country.
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I think you have a little typo in your post. Don’t you mean 1979 onwards has ruined this country?
The real situation is actually worse in some ways than Neil Clark says – because out of 650 seats, only 100 are marginals. In the other 550, you might as well not bother turning up – it won’t make any difference to the outcome. That’s first past the post for you.
Although I would argue that the Tories are now so far from the right that even Tony Blair would look like a socialist by comparison – so the choice is between right and extreme right, rather than 3 clones of Tony Blair.