I don't have a very strong grasp of political issues. I just have warm squishy feelings, which isn't really much of a way to govern your vote, I know. So what follows is a little blind man's buff around my primary concerns.
Perhaps its because I am from a relatively priviliged background, and so don't see life at the sharp end, but I really don't see what the trouble is with immigration. I don't understand at all why most people in this country want immigration tightened up. Its a total mystery to me. The Tory's "opposing immigration isn't racist" posters make me feel VERY uneasy. Every time I see one of their bloody posters I want to spraypaint "Not even close, Mike!" on the bottom.
Maybe its because I earn peanuts, but I'm all for increased taxation, if the results are going to be seen.
It the back of my mind, there's always the feeling that a vote for Labour will be on some level an endorsement of the invasion of Iraq.
That Lancet report, even if out by 50,000 civilian deaths (and I don't see why it necessarily would be), is utterly jaw-dropping. I won't allow myself to be seen to endorse something not totally disimilar to a decimation, even tacitly.
Charley K just had a baby! Aww!
I was reading in the Observer on Sunday that so many labour voters are disenchanted that there could be the outside chance of an upset. If Michael Howard becomes prime minister, I'm going to cry. But that isn't going to stop me voting for the Lib Dems most probably. I'd like to see them strengthening their hand this election but who knows? I don't believe that they are really that much of an alternative to the other two.
I agree with the Orangutang - its most likely to be a drastically cut Labour majority, isn't it?