The only thing to guarantee change is a strong conservative government. I may be paraphrasing things but I believe that was the message that the party political broadcast by David Cameron was saying. Suddenly he is starting to look like yesterday's man. There is a huge amount of things that can and probably will change over the next two weeks but one thing for certain is that the if things don't change quickly then the conservative party will start to disintegrate amidst their internal contradictions.
The argument that is being put forward by the conservative does seem to reek of desperation. here are three I have picked up over the weekend:
Vote for Nick Clegg - get Gordon Brown. There may be some truth in this - however would Gordon brown be able to hang if he has lead the Labour party to a close draw with the Lib Dems. Even if he does will the Lib Dems want to do business with Gordon Brown - what would he be able to offer. His voting reform is not really PR and in short he is a busted flush. Why get into bed with him.
Deals will be made in secret between the parties. Wasn't it always thus. Politics is about deals and compromises. If we have a hung parliament then the one thing we will not get is one party ramming through a policy without any real support in the country - Iraq anyone?
We need a strong government to deal with the financial crises. There is some truth about this as well but it is surely the case that what ever form of government that comes out of the hung or balanced parliament they will have a mandate to deal with whatever comes. Is any party likely to put the country's financial health at risk for their own political advantage. After all should the government fall and a new election be called there would a real chance that they would be swept away at the ballot box.
In short we need a real change and the only way to start to deliver this is to really shake up things. No clear winner will be the start of the process and the only party offering PR is the Lib Dems - otherwise it will be business as usual.
Simon Marchini LRPS
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