The fact that it is the Daily Fail running the story goes miles to showing how important it is for the tories to secure a 'no' vote. No way would a rank right wing rag like them run the story unless they were very concerned indeed. No way would I usually use a Mail story as they are so horribly biased in their reporting, just like the 'Torygraph'.
The paper itself always slants to the tories POV, hence later in the story I quoted they try to spin it at all costs. It is very, very clear which way The Fail wants the vote to go.
The cuts are fact, if you don't believe that then you must have blinkers on to the world. You really hold a position that says pensioners will not see a cut in their essential winter fuel payments? One that denies hospitals, schools, libraries, bus services, charities will be forced to close? One that pretends disabled people wont be cynically
thrown onto the lower paid JSA and forced to find jobs that are simply not there to be had, even if they were able bodied? One that will see High Streets turned into ghost towns whilst hypermarkets prosper? I think you are buying into your own spin mate. Can you really sit there and support a govt that lied it's way into power. I can't, it makes me feel sick.
Roly, I see lots of ppl saying how they are going to vote 'no' and hang on for a PR system. How is that going to happen? PR is not, nor has ever been, on the table. It was smashed down in Parliament when Clegg tried to get it, hence him calling AV "a miserable little compromise". AV is the best we are going to get, and anyone waiting for PR will be waiting a very long time. It just isn't going to happen in our lifetimes.
I'm not a Labourite btw, I think Miliband is a weak leader, I just want fairness in the popular vote. I live in the ultra safe Brentwood & Ongar seat where my vote is actually worth 0.053 of a vote in reality unless I vote tory. AV will give ppl the confidence to vote with their heart, whether it be for green, ukip, or whatever, safe in the knowledge that their second preference is there as a failsafe. We could see some interesting coalitions, which stop single party ideology running rampant for a whole five year term. Imagine a pro-Europe party trying to push us into the Euro with UKIP as a coalition partner for example. It just could not happen.
As for e-cigs, what will be will be. I would happily trade the right to
vape unchecked, indefinitely, for sensible regulation if it meant getting a govt that cares about ordinary people. AV doesn't favour Labour no more than it favours LibDems. It simply gives people the chance to cast a real vote and not be forced to make a tactical one that doesn't reflect their true politics. Tories will only ever care about money interests and their millionaire ex-Bullingdon chums business concerns. The conservative party is fatally flawed to always cause social unrest, it's what they are good at.
I am most definitely in the Yes2AV camp.
