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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Graham, you know just as well as anyone that while Liam Fox was in opposition he could say what he wanted......he didn't have the power to do anything.....and all politicians do the same thing while in opposition.
Now he is in the place to do something let us see what happens.
I have no party allegiance, but even you must admit, that the last government made a total MCU of things.
When a party is in opposition it promises the earth if you elect them.....without considering how this is to be funded.(Perhaps they themselves have no idea as to how it will be funded)
When yo do elect them you don't get the earth, you get fertilizer(and I'm being polite here).
I don't care which party are elected as long as they have the will, the intellect, and the cojones to get us out of the mess we are in.
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My watchword on the doorstep was that anyone who comes a-knocking cannot promise you anything because they don't have the power to do so. Nationally, it's a bit of a different ball game although you're heavily reliant on what the party in Westminster decides to do.
The Conservatives have made a lot of promises in the run up to the election, the biggest lies probably being the referendums on electoral reform and on the EU, neither of which will now happen.
Mind you, give them credit for thinking big. The best argument for voting Tory that the local party could come up with was a leaflet showing their candidates hugging a grit bin. We had a good laugh about that, partly because it was Tory council and county council that failed to prepare for last winter but mainly because Britcliffe tried to make out that it was Labour's fault.
Ever the politician, even his own mistakes are the fault of the opposition.