Having had the dubious pleasure of reading (well, skimming in parts) the manifestos of the three main parties, I would hazard a guess that the reason no-one has brought up an income tax rise is that none of them really talk much about taxes increases at all. All of them have similarly tiny plans for cutting budgets/raising taxes compared with their commonly agreed fiscal challenge of cutting/raising around £37 billion a year (amusingly, Tories have the biggest gap in their plans despite all their tough economic talk). I bet the Lib Dems at least have thought about an income tax rise but just haven't brought it up in debates as there really isn't any need when none of the parties are outlining tough choices.
I'm a swinging voter too, though as I'm in a very safe Conservative seat it probably doesn't really matter who I vote for. I wish there was some way of rounding up all the non-Tory (and non-BNP!) voters and combining our votes for either Lab or LibDem! Labour certainly come across as tired, even in their manifesto, and are irritating in their recent politics (eg attacking the Tories for wanting to means test child trust funds and tax credits - are we in a world gone mad?)
I want to like the Greens, but whenever I spend any amount of time reading their policies I feel like shaking them, and telling them to go think some more.
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Date: 2010-05-04 05:55 pm (UTC)I'm a swinging voter too, though as I'm in a very safe Conservative seat it probably doesn't really matter who I vote for. I wish there was some way of rounding up all the non-Tory (and non-BNP!) voters and combining our votes for either Lab or LibDem! Labour certainly come across as tired, even in their manifesto, and are irritating in their recent politics (eg attacking the Tories for wanting to means test child trust funds and tax credits - are we in a world gone mad?)
I want to like the Greens, but whenever I spend any amount of time reading their policies I feel like shaking them, and telling them to go think some more.