Token Labour Party member #1 reporting for duty, though tired and bored, having been explaining local government to people who already understand anyway for 5 hours today.
I'm hardly going to persuade you though, since I think we're in the process of doing a brave and selfless thing.
Soon a dictator will have been displaced. A mass-murderer of around a million Iraqis will have been removed from the means of perpetrating his crimes. The people who use their citizens' money to bankroll the suicide-bombing Jew-hating 'Arab Liberation Front' will be gone. A people will have been freed, and another nation will be on the way to taking its rightful place in the world family of democracies.
> unimpressed with their record on public services
No, it's like renting a house if you can't afford to buy one. Or, more specifically, it's like persuading someone to build you a flat you don't have the skills or experience to build and manage, in exchange for a promise that you'll rent it for a certain length of time afterwards.
I have a problem with quite a lot of PFI because it often just isn't very good value for money in practice, but I can't work myself up to care a great deal about it in theory.
> That leaves the Lib Dems
Who, in Oxfordshire, are in coalition with the Tories, so be careful what you do in the County Council elections (they'll probably be on the same day as the General Election, the way things have been going these last few times).
And who, while I'm here, opposed a national minimum wage, opposed the New Deal, and so on.
> I don't know enough about their policies
They rely on that, nationally, but I suspect to the extent they have coherent policies you'd quite like them. I assumed you'd be a liberal away from my good influence. Go for it, it'll make you feel better, and you'll never have to deal with being disappointed in practice, because they'll never form a government.
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I'm hardly going to persuade you though, since I think we're in the process of doing a brave and selfless thing.
Soon a dictator will have been displaced. A mass-murderer of around a million Iraqis will have been removed from the means of perpetrating his crimes. The people who use their citizens' money to bankroll the suicide-bombing Jew-hating 'Arab Liberation Front' will be gone. A people will have been freed, and another nation will be on the way to taking its rightful place in the world family of democracies.
> unimpressed with their record on public services
Which ones?
> PFI deals (isn't that, like, nearly privatisation?)
No, it's like renting a house if you can't afford to buy one. Or, more specifically, it's like persuading someone to build you a flat you don't have the skills or experience to build and manage, in exchange for a promise that you'll rent it for a certain length of time afterwards.
I have a problem with quite a lot of PFI because it often just isn't very good value for money in practice, but I can't work myself up to care a great deal about it in theory.
> That leaves the Lib Dems
Who, in Oxfordshire, are in coalition with the Tories, so be careful what you do in the County Council elections (they'll probably be on the same day as the General Election, the way things have been going these last few times).
And who, while I'm here, opposed a national minimum wage, opposed the New Deal, and so on.
> I don't know enough about their policies
They rely on that, nationally, but I suspect to the extent they have coherent policies you'd quite like them. I assumed you'd be a liberal away from my good influence. Go for it, it'll make you feel better, and you'll never have to deal with being disappointed in practice, because they'll never form a government.