It's not so much that I like Labour as much as I really dislike the Tories.
Firstly, and most importantly of all, economic policy and an obsession with austerity, and please read the article by Paul Krugman which I linked above for details on this (or alternatively a much easier and quicker, though less detailed read here:
http://benjaminstudebaker.com/2015/0...david-cameron/), but effectively the Tories are using fear as an excuse to fly the austerity flag which enables them to reduce the size of the state. Now I understand that many people like yourself are happy with a goal of reducing the size of the state, but saying that's what you believe in, explaining why and spreading belief in a system is not the same as hiding your true motives. This just makes me trust them less and besides I'm not a fan of reducing the size of the state.
And on to the specifics of austerity. The NHS is worse than it's been for years with longer waiting times and all sorts of crises of hospital beds and the Tory plan is to gradually privatise more and more of it which I don't agree with. The same can be said for social care in general and my opinion of this comes mainly from people I know who work for the local government in various offices, lots of aspects of what it does was outsources to private companies which has proved disastrous and the cuts are making it pretty much impossible for people to do their jobs and at the end of this griping line of civil servants and social workers are (typically poor) people genuinely suffering. I mean Jesus just look at the amount of people using food banks! And I quite simple blame austerity for this more than anything else as it has cut growth, given tax cuts to the wealthy and reduced benefits to the poor as well as reducing the amount of resources allocated to helping people.
£12bn will be cut from the benefits system under a Tory government (and let me add at this point that I don't receive any kind of tax credit or benefit) and the prime minister refuses to explain where it will come from. There's already been massive cuts in disability support for example, and that kind of ties in with the state of fear they create where it seems we should somehow blame the most vulnerable in society for everything that went wrong.
EU referendom - why on earth would we have a referendum on this, leaving the EU is a stupid idea, especially given that the prime minister actually states that he believes we should be in it. Surely if you strongly believe in something like this it should not be something you guarantee a referendum on.
The constantly blaming Labour for the recession. It was a worldwide recession based on a global financial crisis yet the Tories and their media chums have some how spun it so the majority of people actually think labour were responsible for this. They say also say labour spent too much and almost busted the country, yet their spending as a percentage of gdp was within normal perameters and broadly similar to the tory party in the 90s. They also keep claiming they've saved us from ending up like Greece, which is just a ridiculous concept in itself. And worse still, they've been so good at spreading this message that labour can't even deny it without looking like they are irresponsible and likely to lead the country to ruin again, despite the fact that the main thing that has restricted growth over the last 5 year is tory economic policy, which they never acknowledge, obv.
I've got bored and tired now so I'm just going to give up. But I'll be voting labour because they are the only other option and a considerably better one.
