Thing is T, you have to get over this pavlovian knee-jerk response to people criticising
the tories. If you actually did read my post you'd note I was criticising all three of the established parties.

For instance, Ed Mil was on the radio this morning banging on about how the tories, specifically Dave and Gideon had betrayed 'middle England' (no mention of the Celtic nations, note - he don't care for you none). A predictably inane comment taken from the Politicians Book of Hackneyed Phrases, and one which once more sees the rather witless Ed unable to make any political headway despite the fact Dave and Gideon are in the process of fucking over the entire workforce in order to keep their rich buddies in Bollinger and silk tossrags (interestingly, there are rumblings of discontent within the ranks of the tories about how these two are reaching for too much of the low-hanging fruit).

Anyway, Al's right. For many people life deals them a rough hand through no fault of their own for any number of reasons, and as we're (supposedly) civilised there should be a welfare state to catch those of us unlucky enough to fall through the net. As a society we have a responsibility to look after each other and our governments should reflect this, they are able to do this.

Luckily, and as demonstrated buy the fact no-one won the last election, most of the electorate think so too.