An awful lot of people here seem to want Chatshow Charlie in power. If my town council is anything to go by, then a LibDem government would see that the NHS budget will be entirely allocated to pensioners and that the military will be ordered to win hearts and minds by planting garish flowers in all the roundabouts of Iraq.
I used to be a card-carrying LD, but I gave them up after (1) Rupert Moss-Eckhart (2) finally deciding that they didn't realise the problems with Europe and (3) their support for software patents in the European parliament.
It's going to be either Green or UKIP for me (both voted against SW patents), and I'm currently leaning towards UKIP.
Yeah, that's the problem with them; a lot of their supporters are in it for the xenophobia rather that objections with the particular structure of Europe.
There's no easy electoral way to say, "I want a Europe with free movement of people and goods, but without the democratic deficits in the Commission and the Council," or "why is the constitutional convention so bloody elitist?" or "stop the agricultural subsidy madness, it's wasting our money AND impoverishing the Third World".
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Date: 2004-04-20 04:38 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-20 08:00 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-20 12:54 (UTC)It's going to be either Green or UKIP for me (both voted against SW patents), and I'm currently leaning towards UKIP.
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Date: 2004-04-20 15:23 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-20 16:32 (UTC)There's no easy electoral way to say, "I want a Europe with free movement of people and goods, but without the democratic deficits in the Commission and the Council," or "why is the constitutional convention so bloody elitist?" or "stop the agricultural subsidy madness, it's wasting our money AND impoverishing the Third World".