In which I ramble on about UK politics for a bit.
I'm concerned that I'm turning more Conservative as I get older. The idealism of my youth has been quashed under a rising tide of realism.
I must admit, the labour party never really appealed to me. Even as a youth, it always seemed that there were too many unions fighting change, just because it was different.
Those days are long gone now, and "New Labour" is more like "Conservative Lite" than Labour.
I used to be a Liberal. I'd always vote Liberal, even though I knew it was a waste of time. They'd never get in.
Now I'm older though, I'm much more cynical.
Liberals will never get in power, and to be quite honest, I hope they never do. I've had plenty of experience with them at a local level now, and they waste money. Not on good things, I wouldn't mind if they actually improved services, but they don't. They spend more money, and less gets done.
Labour are sell outs. They pretend to be socialist, but they're not. Again, they waste money. They waste it by taking off people, and giving it to companies in the hope that the companies will be more efficient at doing the job.
What you end up with is poorly run services, as the companies are more interested in their shareholders than they are the service they're supposed to be providing. Instead of winning repeat contracts by being good, they use underhand tactics to make it expensive to be replaced if they don't get the renewal.
Conservatives make no bones about it. They don't want more tax money, they want less. They want to spend less, and give money earned back to people who've actually earned it.
Unfortunately this results in degraded public services, poor people who can't get out of a poverty trap, and rich people getting richer.
So, to sum up.
I'm undecided.
They're all rubbish.