Who will win the UK election ?

wymondham

Thinking about who would/could win....


Surely in these days when it's unlikely that a single party will sweep in it says something, and that is the parties are blended with little to distinguish between them. It's all getting very samey red/blue/red blue etc....


The fact that a single party probably wont get in is a failure of politicians - nobody is coming up with the bright, fresh ideas to engage the electorate.


Where is the politician to be brave enough to:


Revamp the tax system - everyone knows its broke and overly complicated.
Clear up housing policy to one that works?
Sort pensions once and for all...
actually control immigration
feel free to add to the list of things they should be coming up with.....

GunJack

think we need a proper "for the good of the nation" coalition, stuff party politics and concentrate everyone on getting the country out of the !!!!, properly out of it....

antrobus

GunJack wrote: »

think we need a proper "for the good of the nation" coalition, stuff party politics and concentrate everyone on getting the country out of the !!!!, properly out of it....

That would require us all to agree on exactly what had to be done "for the good of the nation".

Loughton_Monkey

antrobus wrote: »

..... and NHS back office doesn't do patients.....

That's a matter of opinion.

When they can never change an appointment....
When they send you someone else's appointment....
When they neglect to send one to you until after the date....

... then I consider myself well and truly "done".

wymondham

I see David Cameron is now saying he'll 'pledge' to create a 1,000 jobs a day ....... if he's re-elected.


Why didn't he do this two years ago, one year ago etc. He's had plenty of time to put everything he talks about into action already but has chosen not to. This is all what puts me off elections, especially from those already in power. Do people really lap this rubbish up?


ps - my own dictionary lookup of 'pledge' is 'political bribe which means nothing'


I'm getting disillusioned and we've got weeks to go yet... oh dear!

purch

I thought it was furniture polish :eek:

antrobus

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

That's a matter of opinion.

When they can never change an appointment....
When they send you someone else's appointment....
When they neglect to send one to you until after the date....

... then I consider myself well and truly "done".

No, it was a matter of fact. I worked in NHS back office and never caught even a glimpse of either a patient or their records. That would be a different issue altogether.

TheBlueHorse

i don't know why we can't have a mixed govt, based on a system like this: Labour love the NHS and benefits and criminals etc, so you allow Labour to run the NHS, run the benefit system etc BUT the tories will be in charge of the funds. So, Labour will get an allowance, and they can spend it how they like on the NHS - but when the allowance runs out, that is that. It will be like teaching an idiot how to budget.

antrobus

wymondham wrote: »

I see David Cameron is now saying he'll 'pledge' to create a 1,000 jobs a day ....... if he's re-elected......

I don't think you were quite paying attention to what Mr Cameron actually said. What he said was that his government already had created 1,000 jobs a day over the past five years, and that he was committed to continuing that record if re-elected.

Even the good old Guardian has felt obliged to admit that;

It is true that employment rose by 1.8 million between May 2010, when the current government came to power, and the end of January 2015 (the latest data available from the Office for National Statistics). It roughly works out, therefore, that the number of people employed increased by 1,000 a day over the period.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2015/mar/31/has-david-cameron-really-created-1000-jobs-a-day

wymondham wrote: »

...Why didn't he do this two years ago, one year ago etc. He's had plenty of time to put everything he talks about into action already but has chosen not to. ....

He's already done it. See above.

wymondham wrote: »

...This is all what puts me off elections, especially from those already in power. Do people really lap this rubbish up?.

ps - my own dictionary lookup of 'pledge' is 'political bribe which means nothing'

I'm getting disillusioned and we've got weeks to go yet... oh dear!

It helps if you can fact check stuff in the first place.:)

TheBlueHorse

It's all Thacthers fault I tell you. All her fault. We'd be in the third world if it wasn't for her and her hateful policies. we'd just be a country where everyone is employed by the NHS and it is funded by fairy dust.