Today the Tories
promised to provide more school playing fields if they win the election.
Today the Labour Party
promised to review the size of the Trident submarine fleet if they win the election.
Every day a political analyst takes up valuable air time
giving a rundown on what each party is promising with regard to today’s prize
issue. It’s utterly tedious, and ultimately hopelessly confusing. And can you
trust any party to deliver on its promises anyway? No.
It seems to me that in a General Election the choice is
between what each party stands for in terms of the kind of society they want to
create. Do you want the sort of party that will run the country like a
corporation, with all the selfishness and soullessness thus implied? Such a
society will be geared to the benefit of the rich and successful at one end,
while creating ghettos at the other. That’s pretty much what we have at the
moment. Or do you want a party that will find ways of making society more
inclusive across the board, and in so doing reduce the vast wealth gap that
exists between rich and poor? That’s the sort of thing that makes a culture
more or less content, not the size of the Trident submarine fleet.
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