I’ve had leaflets through the door from all the main parties, and the Socialist party. Today’s turn was a group called “We Can Europe”. Their reason:
We need a new balance between top downward and bottom upward development of the European Project.
David Cameron (Conservative) wrote to me too. He’s still banging on about this European Constitution – which I mentioned on 23rd June 2008 is not actually a constitution at all, but a treaty. Why would I vote for someone who doesn’t even understand the basic terminology of his job. Oh, silly me, he’s doing that thing where if you say something often enough people will believe it. And I’m supposed to trust this politician???
The Lib Dem homepage has a tiny button promoting their EU election campaign – it’s so low down the page it’s below the fold. Once I get there I find they are mixing local and EU politics by promising to cut my income tax by £700.
The Labour leaflet was actually a booklet. I think they just about promised a brand new world on June 5th if I vote for them, they want to change everything. If anything, I find it better to under-promise and over-deliver. That way when you fail on half those policies you’re promising people aren’t quite so disappointed.
So, the choice is people talking bollocks, showing incompetence over basic terminology, or people promising far more than they can deliver.
Then the less-likely candidates – Libertas had a party election broadcast brining in the UK MP’s expenses again. What a waste of airtime.
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