But the fact is.

For as long as you’ve been voting labour – this country has been spending beyond its means (since 1973 when we decoupled our currencies from a material – gold – which had an intrinsic human value)
We can’t fix school roofs with money that doesn’t exist – the money markets know this, politicians know this – and pretty soon – everyone in the county is going to become acutely f**king aware of it…..

As much as I’d like any government (of whatever colour) to go on spending – fundamental laws of economics are just about to kick in – real hard and the horrible truth is – the political debate has already moved on

Your traditional stance is old skool – you need to present me with an argument to vote labour which shows me how they’ll manage with less – how they’ll continue to be compassionate with a population in the early 21st century with a rapidly declining standard of living

lets face it – they haven’t done great in the good times have they?

The only logical thing to do is vote lib dem, get Vince @ #11, reform system, slash spending and hope to god our society doesn’t fall apart at the seams like Greece and southern Europe is about to….

I find this a very hard article to read, but seeing as today is the day of the polls, I thought I’d try and put my brain into gear and become the first comment!

I think a lot of what your write is linked to this inner belief that life under the Tories will be what you expect it to be. What part of Tory policy states that your child of three years old will be worse off? How will her life be blighted?

I will assume that as a three year old possesses no income you are referring to her education. I seem to recall a slightly younger Tony Blair uttering the three words “Education, Education, Education”. Lets be brutally honest, it hasn’t worked. Don’t read the facts and figures, go and talk to teachers. Money is being spent on Teaching Assistants (unqualified and inexperienced people) to help with large class sizes. Did Labour hit their national targets of class sizes? – Surveys, yes…. reality? No.

I find your next comment totally deplorable. Young people? I run and work within recruitment and staffing and there is not one greater group that have been shafted by our current Government. There are hundreds of thousands of young adults, intelligent, educated, aspiring young people with dreams and aspirations ahead of them, but it is this very Government who has condemned them to a life of waiting. Unemployment hasn’t been tackled.

I’ve blogged extensively on this in the past, and without financial stimulation of business there will be no more jobs. Running a recruitment firm based in London has made my life very hard, and I have had to make people redundant, the very, young, intelligent, aspiring young people I referred to above. Did I get help?

No. Small business bank guarantee scheme? No chance! – You own a recruitment firm, “High risk” I was told…surely that’s the point? Liquidators are hardly short of a few quid right now!

Stuart, you can indeed remember Life under the last Conservative administration, and I am sure that not all of your comments are incorrect, but please think of this (and I am sure you’ll disagree).

I started work in 1998 and at the age of 21 set up my first company and at 24 set up my second. I have never worked a day in my adult life under any other Government, but at the age of 30 I certainly don’t think of myself as young. Gordon Brown has missed people like me.

I live a life of more taxes (lets not quote them all), more business red tape. We are now the 84th hardest country in the World to run a company in (from 4th) when Labour took over. This has to stop. We can not carry on paying for others mistakes.

I will ask you one final question, as a loyal Labour supporter. “If Gordon and his team have all of these amazing ideas about the future, why, oh why has he not implemented them already? If he has the substance, the gravitas, the ability, then why are we in the position we are in? You can not argue with economic experts. WE are in the second worst place of the whole of Europe regarding our deficit, behind a country where people are dying in riots. We can not afford the same old solutions to the same old problems.

People like me need fresh ideas, new ways, its what makes this country so great, so why is he now talking about all the changes and all the amazing steps he can take, when in reality he has taken none?