Power Hungry

So the Tory party has stated recently that it might not be able to prevent a tax rise and cutting taxes seems unlikely. After reading an article in the Independent a couple days ago talking about how the Tories would do well to ditch their pledge to cut inheritance tax...a move that some in the party would be most dipleased at yet would do them well in public opinion....you now have Ken Clarke talking about doing exactly that whilst official party line stays the same.

Anyway point is that the Tories are in dilema. They aren't riding high in the polls because they are 'good' or because of their policies....they are riding high because everyone hate Labour and are reluctant (read:too stupid :p ) to turn to the Lib Dems. Realisation that the Tory ways of old (...anti-europe, tax cutting, working class hating, rich loving...you get the idea....) would result in disaste for the UK if they got into power with this current crisis is obviosuly leading to them becoming more like New Labour as thats how to get to power and not loose it straight away, which is ironic because New Labour got in by leaving the left and heading in the Tories direction.

Result: a slightly center right party which is meant to be left wing (Labour) and a right wing party moving to the center (the Tories).

This is just bad for the UK, it results in tabloid grabbing policies which i'd almost call reactionairy in the way it damages the progressive cause.

The only way we all might benifit is if we end up with a hung parliment and the Lib Dems get some significant power. The country has gone way too right wing on issues of drugs, social freedoms and civil liberties and the Tories won't reverse that.

I fear the Tories in power as well because they are by far the most isolationist out the 3 parties due to the simple factthat they don't get on with either Europe or America. At least with Labour they try to get along with Europe occasionally and with Blair gone and the Democrats in power some American loving isn't as bad as it was, and the Lib Dems are senisable in realsing that unity with Europe is the long term intrest of making sure the British people proper in the future, even at the expense of relations with any future Republican US administration (I think they'd be a sbit strained with the Democrats but not half as bad as the Tories).

To end this somewhat directionless rant my general concern is that the Tories are just gonna morph into a public face that is acceptable, get into power and be divided by struggles as there real face re-appears and we all rememeber why we hated them in the first place.