Re: The political debate
I can't see the next few years being easy however the election turns out
Borrowing is so high we're all going to suffer while finances are sorted out.
I will give Gordon Brown credit for handling the financial crisis quite well
but he has to be at least partly responsible for the mess. Remember he was chancellor while all the insane lending and enormous bonuses went on and he could have done more to regulate the markets before things reached a crisis. Also one of his first acts as chancellor attacked pensions and look how worried we all are by what's going to happen there.
TBH I think it does any party good to have a spell in opposition. Otherwise they begin to run out of steam and seem to become more arrogant. Unfortunately I groan at the alternatives.
I
can remember the last time we had a Conservative government and I'm not a Cameron fan. Mind you I do respect Annabel Goldie even if I don't always agree with her.
The other parties just don't seem plausible as out right winners and I wasn't over impressed with the Lib Dems when they joined up with Lab. in Holyrood.
Here in Scotland I suspect a Con. victory might help SNP in the long run. We'd be back to the situation of being governed by a party the Scottish people hadn't supported. It wouldn't be long before clashes came between the two parliaments.
I think Westminster could learn a bit from Holyrood. The parties have had to work together. None of them have a complete monopoly on 'wisdom' so having to work that bit harder to sell their ideas isn't such a bad thing.