Matthew Knott - Blog

The latest opinion poll conducted, puts the conservatives around 20% ahead of Labour. This is disturbing to say the least.

As someone who remembers life under the Conservative Party, I hope we never return to those days.

Despite constant media attention on Gordon Brown, pprtraying him as an oaf, this seems to be more media hype and manipulation, and I'm a firm believe in judging people by what they actually do rather than listening to the opinion of the media.

Under Labour, Britain has prospered, unemployment is down substantially on the Major years which saw Britain go through one of its worst recessions ever.

If people look at the Conservative policies, hopefully they will see that these are just pipe dreams for the most part, and a lot of their popularity is generated by the constant media attacks on the current government.

Labour aren't perfect, but what political party could be? The Conservatives paint themselves as the party that can create a perfect britain, lower taxes improve services, but when you look beyond the facade, their policies and contradictive, and could not exist together. To improve services you need money, dropping taxes reduces money, so therefore, cuts are made elsewhere. Hospitals are not built, class sizes increase, people loose support that they have under the Labour government.

Labour should keep doing what they are doing, I trust them with the future of the country. Their decisions may not always be popular ones but we have seen that the unpopular choices often render long-term stability.

For this reason, I hope to god that we don't see the Conservatives back in power.