This year for the first time, the leaders of the three major political parties take part in three televised debates. Their would be chancellors in the next government also took part in a similar offering a couple of weeks ago. Do you think this is a good thing and will politics in the UK be the same after this?This is a have your say post, we want to canvas the opinions of our readers with regards to whether you think the debates are a good or bad thing. Are you indifferent?
Both sides of the political and media divide are having their say as to whether this will change the way elections are campaigned in the future but that’s not necessarily a bad thing is it? After the last election where less than 40% of those eligible did vote, voter apathy has been a word that we hear more and more.
Obama’s campaign for ‘Change’ brought out voters in droves in the US elections of 2008, but that election really was about change. There the incumbent couldn’t run again as the US President can only stand twice. There the Democrats candidate process would have seen the first woman or the first African American standing for the highest office, and when Obama was chosen, the selection of Mrs Palin as the VP candidate for the Republican party was another first.
In these elections, we are voting for a Prime Minister and government which will be made up of plenty of old faces, people we know (and ones we don’t) but in the main, we will be led by career politicians who have all been tainted by the expenses scandal.
An old Etonian who many believe can’t have the first idea about what life is like for common folk, an ex Chancellor who can’t escape the fact that his policies contributed to the current recession. and a relative newboy who assumed office as leader of his party only two and a half years ago.
If any or all of these are to claim to be the leader or party of change, then I suppose it would be the LibDems. They have never been in power. Their policies however have been steadily growing in popularity over the past 10 years and they may find that this election is their best chance yet to assume the mantle.
The huge poll increase (some polls as much as 10 points) since last week’s first televised debate for the LibDems may be an indicator that the people of Britain are ready to give someone new the right to rule over us. What do you think?
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