Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron
While fighting the last General Election in the UK, Conservative leader, David Cameron, put forward the idea of the Big Society. During the election campaign he didn’t go into many details about it, perhaps he hadn’t worked them out at that point.
Now he’s Prime Minister in a coalition goverment with the Liberal Democrats, he has just launched his plan and told us how it’s going to work.
Polling Station in England
Well, it’s nearly the moment of truth. Tomorrow, Thursday, the polls will open at 7am and we will be able to vote to decide on the future government of the country.
I admit, I’m in the minority and do not want the Tories to get into power. I don’t trust them to look after the interests of ordinary people. I don’t feel that David Cameron is genuinely interested in us. I think he’s ‘Blair Lite’, just not as convincing as Tony Blair at getting people to like and trust him. I certainly don’t think that George Osbourne would make a good Chancellor of the Exchequer. Considering that the Tories have kept Osbourne under wraps for most of the election campaign, it seems they don’t think he’s an electoral asset – I agree with them. (more…)
Nick Clegg, LibDem Leader
In just nine days, here in Britain we will be going to the polls to vote for a new government.
As General Elections go, this one has been fairly boring apart from the introduction of leaders’ debates. Because we’re a parliamentary democracy and we vote for individual Members of Parliament to represent our district not the Prime Minister, debates between leaders of the main parties has always been resisted.
It’s not a surprise that Britain is finally going to the polls to vote for a new Government. Commentators have been saying for several days that today, Tuesday, April 6th, British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown would announce the election.
They were right because Brown went to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament so an election can be called. This is a largely ceremonial act but still, it is the first public move in the process.
The meeting took place at 10am today and then Gordon Brown went straight back to Downing Street. His Cabinet assembled outside Number Ten and then he came out and formally announced the election will take place on Thursday, May 6th.
Immediately, the BBC cancelled its BBC1 programmes to show a politics special about the election talking to all the usual suspects who said all the usual things. When they couldn’t find anybody else to interview, the BBC political correspondents interviewed each other which seems particularly pointless as they didn’t have anything new to say either.
Oh joy! We have four weeks of campaigning to live through and then we’ve got to choose. It might just come down to the party who annoys us least in that time.
Seriously, though, it is a big decision because of the times we live in. We mustn’t let the media coverage or the political spin from the different parties to put us off voting. People fought and died to give us the right to choose our own government.
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Nick Griffin, the leader of the far right British Nationalist Party (BNP) which won two seats in the European elections last Sunday, intended to hold a press conference outside Parliament in London to talk about the victory.
Protesters heard about it and quickly gathered around him. He and his colleagues fled from them as they chanted “Nazi scum.” They also pelted him with eggs, one of which definitely hit him. He had to take refuge in his car which quickly drove away.