Labour

Make no mistake I have always been a Labour guy at heart. Sure, I voted for the Liberal Democrats at my first General Election in 2005. Sure, I've flirted with Cameron's Conservatives and UKIP.. but deep down I am Labour.
The trouble is... today's Labour party aren't the Labour party many of its core supporters know and love.
It's New Labour, and New Labour isn't the old socialist party that we had in the 80s. The anti-EU, trade unionist, pro-worker party. We have a kind of Tory-lite Labour party, which funnily enough, shares a lot in common with Cameron's new Tory-lite party.

Pro-enterprise, free-market, pro-capitalist, pro-EU superstate, what is the choice then?

I even contemplated voting Labour at this years election. Why? Because the Tories are no better, I think they could be worse, better the devil you know I say. But that is no way to bring change to a country that needs it..

Sadly the smaller parties don't really seem to offer much, I mean what are the choices there?
We have UKIP which are sadly slipping more and more back into the old Tory-offshoot Thatcherite stance that just won't connect with the millions of working class voters. We have the BNP which are racist. We have the Liberal Democrats who are hopeless (bring back Charles Kennedy!).

We have the Greens who are single-issue and probably want to introduce even more "green taxes", the English Democrats who are frankly a laughing stock, the Socialist Labour Party who have a hell of a lot of potential for winning the Old Labour vote, but just can't get there act together... the website is absolutely appauling for example.

Nope, there is nowhere that is particularly worthy of my vote. And that, is extremely depressing.

But what is even more depressing, is that this General Election, I will probably vote for Labour under Gordon Brown.
Because there is no credible alternative.