A stitch up and a con

The Liberal Democrats cosying up to the Tories is a sign that tactical voting does not work. Where I live, thousands of principled progressive voters voted Lib Dem to "keep the Tories out", as the Lib Dems insisted that voting Labour / Green was a waste of a vote. This, like in many other constituency was a dirty and wicked tactic, and shows the lack of logic behind their campaign strategy. No vote is a waste, it is a strong message that that voter was not satisfied with the other parties and they need to do better.

So much for the "vote Lib Dem here to keep the Tories out" slogan. This is complete rubbish as we can now see. The two parties do, by their own admission, share ground on some "key policy issues". The Tories won in my constituency, and the Liberal Democrat party looks set to form a coalition with the frankly rotten, out of touch and selfish Tories who's principles do not stretch beyond the interests of the wealthy and big corporations. This stitch up of a fake "good party" and the "wannabee good party" is a sickeningly vile form of anti-democracy. A majority of voters voted for progressive parties with competent manifestos favouring electoral form of our rotten and corrupt system. Now one of these parties has betrayed millions who may have otherwise voted for Labour, SNP, Plaid or The Green Party.

I say to the Lib Dems, "shame on you", this is a morally decrepit move that shows what you really are. Any alliance with the Tories is only a way of illegitimately bolstering their power, thus delivering more wealth for the few and less services and action for the many. The Lib Dems came into this election as a thoughroughly anti-Tory party, now we know that this was completely dishonest and they are undeserving of tactical anti Tory support in the future. The Tories/Lib Dems will slash spending on public services and raise our taxes, when they should be locking up greedy bankers. The Lib Dem leadership can be likened to the Sheriff of Nottinghams' henchman- the infamous character- Guy of Guisbourne, stopping Robin Hood from doing his good work.

Perhaps one day the people will learn that tactical voting doesn't work, and democracy only works if you truly vote for what you believe in. The Labour Party have had their time and have well and truly let us down. UKIP and the BNP are conspiracy theorists, xenophobes, and in the BNPs case NAZIs. The only party with a FULLY costed, well thought out, manifesto built on fairness and justice is the Green Party. For goodness sake, in the next election (when they tell you to get it right and have another go), get it right, vote Green!

In a year or so, having failed to form a proper government, the old parties will come back to us and ask us to "get it right", even when they failed so spectacularly to "get it right" themselves. We need to tell them this by voting for a positive, different party. Don't fear radical change. Fear years more of the old ruling class dominating the way we live. Take pack power, let the Green Party sort things out, and then we can all be satisfied with our votes.