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May 05, 2005

What do I do now?

Well may you ask.

If you read the Mirror you'll be told to vote ZNL.

If you read the Telegraph you'll be told to vote TBC.

If you read the Economist you should vote ZNL.

If you're a fan of Rupert "The dirty digger" Murdoch you have a problem. The Sun came out for ZNL, The Times for the TBCs.

What does this blog say?

Well, a poll in yesterday's Telegraph gave the share of vote as follows: -

So let's take them in order.

1) Don't vote. Not a starter, though it's what I'll be doing having not lived in UK for nearly 25 years and not having voted for about 33.

2) ZNL. Do not vote for them. Having got over an attack of fiscal prudence in their first term they're back to tax'n spend. The country is near a balance of payments crisis, and public debt is getting out of control. Another 5 years will see real damage, and more elites destroyed. They'll finish the job at the house of lords, but they'll also be well under way at Oxford and Cambridge. The morally bankrupt Byers, Mandelson, and Blunkett will be back in cabinet, and Brown will do even less to restrain them than Toni did. In 5 years by a combination of gerrymandering constituency borders and greatly increased public employment (which employees will be beholden to ZNL) it is highly unlikely that the socialist hegenomy will be breakable. Don't go down this road.

3) TBC. Strategically inept campaigning, and a strident tone at the hustings have made them virtually unelectable. It's a shame, because, fundamentally, the arguments for smaller government, more self reliance and greater choice, represent the ONLY way that Britain can remain prosperous. This includes self reliance of the UK within the European context, which was a dog that didn't bark this election. They won't win, but vote for them anyway. It needs something, anything, to keep ZNL aware that some people disagree.

4)Lib-dems. They have established an attractive veneer of principle, having been the only party consistently against the war in Iraq, with no ifs and no buts. At least partly because of this, their high tax and spend version of the economy is mostly seen as principled and honest. But make no mistake. It is high tax and spend, more so even than ZNL, and the benefits, if any, of this policy are to be exclusively distributed amongst the middle class in the Lib-dem vision. The only intellectually defensible argument for high tax'n spend is redistribution. You might not like the argument but it can be defended. The lib-dems are doing no such thing, they just squeeze the distribution of wealth to be narrow and high in the middle ground with long tails (but small numbers) at the very poor, and very wealthy ends of the scale. Do not vote for them. Not because it's a vote wasted, and not because you might let someone else in by the back door. Don't vote for them because they have bad financial policies.

So, Who will Win?

ZNL with a 95 seat overall majority.

Posted by Flo Ting Voe Tah at May 5, 2005 09:45 AM

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