[Margaret Pilkington]

No party leader is ever tested by being in opposition.......they know that whatever they say while in opposition is not going to be tested....and then by the time they get into power, the situations have changed so that what they promised whilst in opposition is either no longer relevant, or no longer possible, due to external pressures(like the global recession.
I'm very jaded with politics of all persuasions at present. There are so many hare brained ideas, it is patently obvious that many of the people who are supposed to be running the country, have never lived in the real world...they are so out of touch with the concerns of the electorate.