Is britain ready to embrace David Cameron?

[Gandalf]

Cameron is a snake... right slimey toff.

He's talking about halfing the dole to £25 a week, amongst other benefits... there go half of your votes mate.
He basically wants to reduce taxes in favour of the upper class...

That's supposed to scare people off the dole and other benefits and in to work, or that's what were lead to believe... but the reality is it won't, there a no fucking jobs... all it will do is lower tax for other toffs (or who the tory's would call 'the boys) and lower living conditions for lower classes.

I grew up under the conservative party and me and my brother had nothing, my mum could barely afford to buy food or, getting a bus to the city centre could mess up the whole week's budget.

Labour have basically eliminated the type of childhood poverty this country had in the 80s... working family tax credits, a minimum wage... all introduced by Gordon Brown. When I look at what my brothers now have compared to me when I was there age - it's insane.

Brown has unfortunatly inherited an international problem... until the collapse of the banks (the whole world has been in recession... blame the british goverment with your tabloid formed opinion if you want) the economy has been in great shape under a labour goverment.

It's a knee jerk reaction to what has been a relativly short recession... I think people are quick to forget how awful the country was under the last tory goverment... for over a DECADE.

The solution to the country's problems are pretty fucking simple - stop imigration... it's not discrimination, if we have an over abundance of jobs then let people in... but we don't. if we need more doctors and engineers- let them in... what we don't need it imigrants working on checkouts and managing pizza shops etc... any cunt can do it and there are 1000s of people with no job who would.

The labour goverment needs to get tougher on charvers and crime... but watch the living conditions of the poor decline under the conservatives and then you can sit back and watch crime levels rocket.

I agree that Labour have done a lot of good things, but Labour has dug itself into a hole. It all went wrong when Blair lost all credibility and to be fair Brown inherited a party that had lost public confidence. It's a sad state of affairs when the Tories are once again banging on the doors to power and it's anyones guess what damage they might wreak.

I also agree that immigration is screwed up. Countries SHOULD control immigration. Can anyone just come out here and do whatever work they want and gain eventual citizenship? No, they can't. I have permanent residency out here only because of marriage and my work in Korea involves something people here simply cannot do as well as me. This seems to be the right approach to me. And yet it seems to be so simple in the UK for people to go over there and find any old work that other UK citizens could be doing. It's unhealthy. If there is a shortage of skilled workers then of course you bring them in, but otherwise it should be strictly controlled.

[Master]

They are all the same, shite, looking after themselves. Vote Green.

[superheavyrhun]

I can understand the frustrations that have led us to the situation we are in at the moment,but I'm p[raying for the miracle that keeps the blue menace out of power.

I was in my mid-teens when Labour came to power, and it was a huge celebration when the results came through, I shared my first beer with my dad (it tasted like crap) but though my parents never had any huge financial problem, we lived on a tight budget, with my dad working days and mum nights to keep food on the table.

The improvements in standard of living under the labour regime has been huge, but by making sure the benefits system gives people enough to live on also means its a bigger target for scroungers and fraudsters. I don't know the answer, but hitting everyone's dole because a small percentage don't want to work or screw the system doesn't seem like an answer to me, and it doesn't make any more jobs available.

If the tories win the election, I'll be praying not to get unemployed under their watch, cause it'll be tesco value cheese and bread on my table, and a small glass of tapwater.