Originally Posted by Chrysalis

To correct that one, no doubt labour are soft on children but they have come down very hard on childless welfare claimants. However the tories blew their chance to steal those votes by announcing a policy thats even tougher and unreasonable. Of course the majority of the country are welfare claimaints. Thanks to silly things like a non means tested child benefit.

Personally I will either not vote (dont see the point as stronghold labour area on crappy fptp system) or will vote lib dem.

To be brunt the tories are the party for the people who only care about the cash in their own pocket as they love tax cuts. Since its not really a sellable policy as people will know savage spending cuts have to be made to fund tax cuts then the tories just concentrate on discrediting the opposition instead.

eg. they attack labour on youth unemployment yet are planning to cut funding for youth training and apprenticeship schemes.
they attack on the gap between rich and poor and will cut inheritance tax for the rich.
they attack on the running of the economy but plan to cut investment in the public sector very severely which will only increase unmemployment.
they attack on the how labour handling of the banks yet the tories for short term gains plan to sell those shares on the cheap. Guess who will snap most of them up.
they claim they will get people on incapacity benefit back into work, the truth is they will just unconditionally cut their income and leave them to rot after that.
if I was a multi miilionaire who owned tons of land yep I want the tories in power, I cant think of what they will do for the average working class tho.