Throwback Article: Who should father new Britain?

Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by GoRealer in Politics, UK

Meet New Britain, she has a dilemma. She has an 11 year child with so far unknown father-who she believes to be her ex boyfriend Tony.

Britain first met Tony in 1995, when he gathered enough courage to approach her promising to be a better father than her current partner John - who may I add had failed with his lack of investment for their children’s future.

So Tony would charismatically read sweet poems of ‘Education, Education, Education’ and economic prosperity , of which turns out Tony’s best mate Gordon was masterminding in the hope that one day Britain will realise that it was him that was constructing these scriptures and Tony will just move a side one day and let them live happily ever after.

She has come to the Show today to find out the biological father and who can best be the father of her child onwards.

‘Recession’

All newspapers make for a depressing read about the state of Britain today. Not too long ago we would brag about how strong our economy was, and well funded our public services were. But now all we seem to read about is the possible recession, house repossession, knife crime and million pound bonuses for top bankers.

Parliament debates nowadays are like an episode of your favourite talk shows. Where the opposition party like the random ex boyfriend seems to be pointing their finger at the current government as if to say the last time they were in office was merely a one night stand and they could not possibly have fathered this mess. But yet they claim to have the leadership to whip the country back into shape.

In true Tory style, I could not help but think of most prominent policy; lifting the inheritance tax threshold to £1million. Wait a minute, the country is rapidly crawling into a recession and you want to cut inheritance taxes? Mind you the Chief execs of the financial instructions that have gambled people pensions, mortgages and savings away are within such a threshold, so in modern day anarchy it does make sense to award the group less likely to feel the pressure of the recession with a tax cut. by the way the last part was sarcastic.

Then we have Gordon, who claims that he has the experience to turn things around, because after all he got us here right? He promises tougher regulations to prevent the credit crutch from happening again. When it was his party that loosened up the regulatory grip that theoretically governments need to have on these types of institutions. Mind you it was good while it lasted; Britain over the last 10 years strengthened its position as the global financial capital. But as we all know that the financial industry is indeed that, financial and there is no room for morality and it is indeed the governments job in keeping the balance.

The Lib Dems’ party leader has proposed cut of £20billion on public spending. I know, I was like huh? When I first heard that too, to be honest they don’t seem to have any logical explanation for such a claim. But the parties economic spokesman Vince Cable, possibly my favourite politician at the moment seems to be on a mission to milk every fair share tax off big business and rich, who had previously escaped through tax loopholes. I don’t know if that is a shot in the foot or a cause for celebration that a politician is actually taking a Robin Hood stance for once.

‘Crime’

Just like the financial difficulties both main parties seem pretty lost on the issues of crime. The conservatives call for tougher sentences, with greater investment in having more Bobbies on the beat. Makes sense, except that there seems to be no consideration on the causes of crime such as poverty and lack of social worth within the British youth. The Labour stance is pretty much identical and vague, with the previous stance of building new off shore prisons to combat crowding, just goes to show that the future is pretty is not a bright one. It is as if we are accepting that there are going to be more criminals, so it best we find a way to store them.

The Lib Dems seem to take a more nurturing approach or end the ‘punishment posturing’ that they suggest the other two parties are promising. I must say it is looking like all political sense seems to be coming from the liberals on both side of the pond.

Chris Hunhe, the liberal democrats Home affairs spokesman concludes: “Our prisons are colleges of crime. If prisons works so well, why has crime gone down in Denmark while the number of prisoners has gone down? Why has crime fallen in Canada when the prison population is the same? “The government’s own top-notch research found no evidence that tougher penalties deterred crime.”

Overall

Having considered the main issues above, it seems like there is not much difference between the current government and the Tories stance on both issues. Whereas the Lib Dems seem to be taking a slightly unorthodox approach to taxation and an expected left wing stance on crime, but to be honest I am even more confused o who to cast my vote on after the party conferences than before them.

One advice I will give to Britain, is that she does not begin to glamorise the whole election affair like the Americans, where people are beginning to vote for appearances and which leader best represents their social class.

Being that this is the first general election that I will be voting in, I will make sure that I hold my cards close until the election day, because I can see flaws in all of the parties, with the current economic climate, the thought of picking the wrong leadership could be catastrophic. In that case for the nation rather than person reasons we should all take to take an independent stance until Election Day, although I doubt that would be the case for many people, who by the state of the polls seem to have pretty much made their minds up.