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During Margaret Thatcher’s time as prime minister complacency and state corporatism was finally challenged. However, many social problems were not addressed and the Conservative establishment soon reasserted itself.  In recent years the party has reverted to its post-war role of accepting the apparent consensus and promising not to stray too far from it.

In short, the Conservatives will tax as much as Labour but claim to spend the money more wisely. In other words, they will continue along the same path of decline.

The Liberal Democrats: Oh Dear!

And what can we say of the Liberal Democrats, except that they are certainly not liberals and are quite unconvincing as democrats. They cannot be compared to the classical liberals of the nineteenth century who believed in a progressive and free society built on shared values, self-restraint and personal responsibility. Today’s so-called liberals feed on the group rights culture alongside a high tax and spend philosophy that pays lip service to economic viability.  Their plans to raise taxes and environmental levies would cause yet more damage enterprise whilst failing to tackle the enormous and unsustainable public sector.  Not only does parliamentary democracy not figure highly in their plans, Westminster would almost be irrelevant in the Liberal Democrat world of multi-layers of government doing the bidding of the EU and the UN. If the Liberal Democrats ever became anything more than a protest vote, then they would undoubtedly cause great damage.

Conclusion

The present choice for the voter is indeed a poor one. All three parties have polished their vote catching skills at the expense of principled leadership and each party, in its own way, has given in to the view that Britain is now, and will remain, an irrelevance in the bigger picture.  None of the parties can stop our decline and none of the parties can help us measure up to world class economies.

So who is to blame?

Although here is growing distrust of politicians, it is matched in equal measure by apathy and self-interest. Voter turnout may be falling but this does not prevent the usual suspects from using the same old tricks to win elections. Although many people realise that the unremitting breakdown in our self-reliance, our skills and our society cannot continue indefinitely, a significant number apparently could not care less.  At the end of the day we can hardly criticise politicians for using spin if it continues to work for them.  Despite our obvious decline, we have totally failed to hold our politicians to account.  It will only be when we demand to told the plain truth that politicians will be compelled to put their cards on the table.

Until then we will indeed be stuck with Hobson's Choice.

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