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Originally Posted by Gayle
I am fighting a local election on local issues, I will talk about them until the cows come home. I'm simply not qualified enough to answer or defend questions on national issues.
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A very good politician's answer, Gayle!
However, you are a member of the Labour party and, therefore, you must have strong views on national political topics. I accept that you are perhaps caught between a rock and a hard place...defend the policies of this government and you risk alienating potential voters, criticize the government's policies and you risk being regarded as "off-message" by the party bigwigs.
Nevertheless, it is a pity. A lot of the threads which criticize the government on here simply end up as a series of posts agreeing with each other. It would have been interesting to hear the opposite point of view. Perhaps, after the election, you may be persuaded to enter the cut-and-thrust of national political debate?