IT IS nearing the end of the first full week of the elections and the three main parties have all launched their election manifestos. Brown, Cameron and Clegg have set out their party’s stalls for the voters.
To be honest there hasn’t been much excitement so far. Dear leader, Mr Brown, revealed his party’s document with a rather ‘soviet looking’ image on the front cover announcing Labour as the People’s Party. He acknowledged tough choices would have to be made to reduce the deficit, but failed to outline how. That was left to the Lib Dems, as yesterday Nick Clegg described the deficit as the ‘Elephant in the room’ with Vince Cable being dubbed the ‘Elephant man’ and the best person to solve the problems.
The Conservative’s big idea is to get the public to be part of the government. We’re not going to be invited to be next Chancellor but the Tories want us to have more involvement in the running of the country as we take over the running of schools and generate numerous amounts of petitions. But is this idea just a way to shift the blame from politicians onto us when things start to go wrong again?
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