For the past few months I have been actually kind of looking forward to the election and the media circus that goes with it. In a sad way I actually enjoy the media going a bit overload on politics, if only because you see politicians sqwirm.
But now it’s here, I’m pretty underwhelmed by it. I’m beginning to think all of the main parties are pretty much the same. I’m beginning to think I shall base my vote on the actual people standing in my constituency, and who will best represent the needs of the public.
The whole debate about the leaders, and their policies (which they don’t seem very keen to actually discuss very much) seems a bit irrelevant really, as with the state of the economy whoever gets in is going to have to make drastic savings on public spending.
The more I think about the whole set up, the whole political ‘party’ organisation is far from ideal. If only everyone were Independents!!
I think the best outcome for my opinion would be a hung parliament where all the main parties, and maybe some of the others such as the Nationalists (although it gets messy here) form a coalition government. My only fear about this is that the politicians would spend more time arguing than getting on with the proper business of running the country.
I also believe that irrespective of which party wins the election, there is only so much they can do to influence the business of government. Each of the departments are such huge organisations, I cannot see that they will all suddenly change the way they operate – it would take months, probably years, and take massive amounts of bureaucracy!
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