You are a troll, an idiot or a bit of both.
Simple enough for you?

I was asking Mintball a perfectly reasonable question.

Not sure why you feel obliged to write such juvenile stuff. Go play with your Star Wars figures there's a good lad.

I saved her a job and answered you for her.

I am trying to understand this bit of what she wrote:

"Which is another idiotic statement that is either intended purely to wind people up or, if a genuine reflection of views sincerely held, reveals a chronic lack of understanding of such matters."

It makes absolutely no sense in the context of what I wrote.

Also what are the "matters" of which I spoke that Mintball believes she has a superior understanding of?

I read today that Cameron said in PMQs that the loss of AAA meant that cuts would need to be further and faster.

I don't think even Cameron actually believes anything he says nowadays..... His austerity policy lost all credibility quite a while back, and it only continues because he hasn't the balls to stop it running out of control and totally fooking this nation up.

This government is truly the worst in my living memory and there have been some poor ones.

To get away from Dally's pretence at understanding that about which he pontificates - he lost any credibility in that field a long time ago -and to get back to the subject of the politics of the country.

I'm 48. I started voting during the early 80s when the Conservative party were in power and have voted in every single election, at whatever level, since. I believe it to be a fundamental plank of the British society.
I've never voted Conservative and never will. I see that despite their protestations they only truly represent a small part of the population, those with land and money.
I've been a swing voter between the other two all my life, alternating between Labour and Liberal/LibDem depending on which I felt reflected my views most honestly.
In recent years - probably since about 1990 - I've consistently voted LibDem as I felt i couldn't trust Blair, or laterly Brown as I didn't see them as representing anything other then a very small area of interest to them.
Now I can't see myself voting in the next election. Tories? No, they've dragged us to the bottom of the gutter than the Labour party dropped us into. LibDem? Nope, they've destroyed any credibility they had. Labour? See first comment. UKIP? Hahahahahahahahah.... A joke party that will implode after the next election, or when Farange walks away. Whichever comes first.

I honestly don't see a viable party in British politics any more.

Sounds like you should set up a party to reflect your views.

I think we should brace ourselves for some serious cuts in public spending: www.cityam.com/article/loss-uk-s ... e-sterling and, Cameron's response to the ratings downgrade: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpoo ... -32891961/

I think we should brace ourselves for some serious cuts in public spending: www.cityam.com/article/loss-uk-s ... e-sterling and, Cameron's response to the ratings downgrade: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpoo ... -32891961/

Your experience is remarkably similar to mine over almost the exact same period of time (I'm 50). I can't currently see myself voting for any of the three main parties and most of the fringe parties are either deeply unpleasant or pointless. Often both.

I'm going to have to find one somewhere though. I can't bring myself to abstain in a General Election.

In which case vote for a minority party whose key message is something you believe in (eg Green if you are concerned with the natural world / environment, UKIP if you are anti-EU, etc). Do not consider it a wasted vote.

I'm going to be voting Labour, probably. I have only ever voted Labour or Lib Dem, and the Lib Dems will never get another vote from me at any level.

I don't think Labour did too much wrong domestically during the Blair/Brown years, if you conveniently forget about the whole Iraq kerfuffle. The [uglobal[/u financial collapse caught most people/governments with their pants down, and it'd have been just as severe for the people of this country under any colour of government. I do think the Labour party would have been far less inclined to use the disaster to drive through an unpleasant ideological agenda of raping the poor, though. So, on that basis alone, I'll probably vote for them.