Re: UK election. So much for our votes counting - worst result possibl
They actually have good ideas on getting people off benefits and back to work
"Stop benefits" isn't an idea.
plus capping immigration will help open up more jobs for native populations.
For the last time, no, it won't. The cap only applies to outside EU immigration, who have to prove employment and British advertising for that employment before they can come. So it will make little or no difference to the job market even
if the simplistic idea of 'fewer immigrants = more jobs for us!' was actually legitimate (it isn't, higher populations also breed jobs, particularly in the service sector).
Now the best thing about the current situation is that if they form some kind of coalition with the Lib Dems we get the best of both worlds. The Lib Dems had great ideas too for sorting the country out. In such a coalition you have a right wing party and a left wing party which together will create a more centre leaning government as they work in conjunction.
The time of Labour is over and it's been a long time coming. We've had Labour for so long that people are scared to see them go, they cannot comprehend the fact that things without Labour will be far far better.
I hope and pray that the Tories and Lib Dems form a coalition.
The Lib Dems' sticking point,
especially after what happened this week, will be electoral reform, and the Tories are the one party who simply can't budge on that without committing electoral suicide. PR or another more democratic system would destroy the Tory party's chance of every getting into government again. The small-c conservative voting population is just too small. Take a look at the election results from the point of view of vote share by ideology instead of party - the 'left', Labour, Lib Dem, Green, etc. share
dwarfs the 'right', Tory, UKIP, English Democrats, etc share. The Tories can only achieve government
because of first past the post. And that seems to be wher the Lib Dems won't budge. And rightly so, frankly. From a national perspective, our system is horribly undemocratic, and from a party perspective, the only way the Lib Dems can break their mold is to get their vote share (which still actually rose slightly despite the huge disappointment in votes) recognised for the support it actually represents, instead of crushed by the FPTP system.
If only he could be PM...
