Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Why you should all vote Conservative on May 6th

The election is nearly over and I've completely failed at keeping up a regular blog - I did try and I hope what people did read was somewhat illuminating.

But at the time of writing, 24 hours from now and the whole thing will be over, the fate of the nation decided.

Tomorrow's election is the most important in my life time and probably the closest fought in my parent's lifetime's too. None of us have any clear idea what the result tomorrow will be; a freak in the election system could easily produce another Labour government, a hung parliament seems likely but a Conservative majority is not impossible. The race really is open and with many voters deciding who they vote for when they step in to the polling booth, this is my last chance to try to convince you to Vote Conservative tomorrow.

Britain is broken - literally and metaphorically. The government is currently spending £170 billion more than it receives in taxes and we're running a national debt which is pushing £1 trillion. British society is broken with violent crime on the rise and family breakdown at record levels. And our political system is broken, rotten and in need of reform. All this after thirteen years of a Labour government.

A vote for Labour tomorrow means five more years of decay and five more years of economic ruin. Labour's only solution to the problems we are facing is to give the state more power to interfere in our lives whilst taxing jobs and penalising hard-working families. The Liberal Democrats are a vacuous excuse of a political party whose policies don't stand up to scrutiny. Mr Clegg's talk of a 'new politics' is empty rhetoric - a vote for the Liberal Democrats is a vote for five more years of Gordon Brown.

But there is an alternative. From May 7th we can have a government that will start cutting the deficit now by cutting government waste whilst protecting front line public services. The Conservatives will cut £6.5 billion in government waste this year. Labour have identified £15 billion of waste which they want to go on wasting for another year; if the government is wasting our money they should stop wasting it now, not wait for another twelve months.

From May 7th we can have a government that isn't in denial about the crumbling society we see around us. The Conservatives want to support families by rewarding marriage in the tax system and would restore pride in our communities by empowering citizens to make decisions about their local areas.

From May 7th we can have a government that would cut the cost of political by reducing the number of MPs by 10% and slashing ministerial pay 5% and freezing for the rest of the parliament whilst at the same time giving us the chance to recall MPs who are failing their constituents.

From May 7th we can have a Conservative government that will bring an end to 13 years of Labour miss-rule.

I can't vote in this election so this is my plea to those that can. It's my generation that has witnessed the gap between the rich and poor grow under a Labour government, my generation that is seeing over 20% youth unemployment and my generation that has been burdened with Gordon Brown's gigantic debt. So I plead with you, for the sake of the young people of Britain, do not put us through the pain of another five years of Labour government. Please, Vote Conservative.