Let's talk politics. Gordon Brown, in a speech in Nottingham on Friday claimed he had five key pledges: raising family living standards, buliding a hi-tech community, strengthen fairness in communities and protecting frontline services. He also vowed to stabilize the economy through economic growth, cuts to lower priority spending and fair taxes. On a BBC 5Live phone in on Saturday evening, there was a huge debate (almost as exciting at Paxman's questioning of Michael Howard) between two men, one a blogger and the other an MP (Labour and Conservative) and the MP was tearing the blogger to pieces saying that Gordon Brown's "carefully costed" attitude was bullshit. He said it was impossible to carefully cost an economy and said why was it not "carefully costed" when the national debt doubled.
To me, it seems like the Conservatives are playing a game of we've got nothing good to offer so we'll wait for Labour to say something and then completely dismantle it and make them seem bad whilst we're about it.
I heard Gordon Brown saying the other week in a speech that Labour was a "middle class" party, whereas the Conservatives are a "rich" party. I find it difficult to get my head round, even when studying politics in sixth form, the boundaries involved in defining working, middle and upper classes. Income and occupation have to be taken into consideration but it seems like there are more defining issues which are considered when working out the class system.
