The Eye

So the election has been called. The campaign starts here. many of you that know me may be suprised at what I have to say, but upon careful consideration, my vote, and I hope your vote, goes to the Conservatives.

I was a member of the Labour Party for a number of years, and I voted Labour in 1997, hoping for a real step change in British Politics. I was so disappointed when Labour lost the 1978 General Election, and was tired of the best part of twenty years of Tory Rule. I was no supporter of Margeret Thatcher. She was too self opinionated, too idealogic in her ways, too party polarized.

Thatcher wanted to privatize everything in an idealogical way in the same way that Labour at the time would have nationalized the local fish and chip shop. Absolute bollocks.

We move on 20 years. Dogmatic Thatcher was replaced by Major, the Wet Weekend, and then he gave way to Blair in 1997. I remember getting out of bed at around 5am, and seeing that Gillingham had a Labour MP for the first time since 1950. Paul Clark, a former Head Boy from my old School, Gillingham Grammar. I was so estatic! It was short lived. I was old enough to know better really. In many ways it makes little difference to the average man in the street who is in office.

You make or lose your own fortune.

Blair has turned out to support much of what the Labour Party opposed when in opposition. Taxes have gone up and up. I truly believe the only way forward is to streamline administration. Small government.

Why? Because bloated government means more government jobs, means more money needed to pay for these positions, means more taxes. More taxes means less money in a person’s pocket, which means less money in the economy. Less money in the economy means less business being done, everyone paying more in the stores, so everyone buys less, and the economy stagnates. Pay taxes for the important things - the communal stuff.

• Health
• Education
• Waste Disposal
• Transportation
• Public Utilities

Cut the red tape and regulation. Tell Brussels to stick their petty red tape where the sun doesn’t shine, and stop giving them money to subsidize the rest of Europe.

I’d really like to say vote UKIP, but I dont’ think they have other serious policies to enable them to efficiently run the country. A Conservative vote, is at least a small step in the right direction towards keeping a reasonably independent Britain.