[comment left on the Indy website, a bit long so may not be displayed -copied here for my posterity!]
I am no financial expert, just ordinary Jo Blogs. But, I'm intelligent enough to understand when a complicated economic issue/s explained coherently. I even understood what the trans-Atlantic sub prime bubble & CDO's and why it caused our world wide crisis - because it was explained well. I informed myself, which requires less idleness and more interest & engagement in what our govt & prospective govts are telling us.
I find Vince Cable and John Thurso a breath of fresh air, whatever the merits of their policies they explain them well and they certainly seem well thought out. I am confident in them stewarding our economy thru very stormy weathers ahead.
MY POINT I really wish to make here is - if there is a conspiracy of silence on the state of our fiscal situation then 'that' is most definitely a 'two nag lollop', even if the election has become genuine 3 party battle-royal. Alan Budd I seem to remember (hope that's factual) certainly a financial adviser worked for browns govt until late last year before decamping to conservatives where he prepared a full report for them akin to what the govt had presumably- we don't know. When asked Cameron would not make it public. So these 2 party’s who have the full information before them - the whole horror of situation and where the cuts will need to come from or indeed where are the choices for cuts to be made. It is Labour and Conservative who have kept it from us the public. Their manifestos roundly condemned by IFS. The party who was given no such help and with no deep pocketed backers to buy them the influence, they had 2 put their own fiscal policy & analysis together from the sketchy financial info that’s allowed to escape from the brown apparatchik and other usual sources- apparently doing rather well. It is they Lib Dems who put in a costed priority manifesto - IFS said it added up - and in analysing all the parties manifesto proposals, Its Vince ahead, Darling following behind and Osborne languishing some £20billion behind Vince. The IFS chap said they are the best of a bad bunch - rather swingeing itself!
In addition 'rope a dope Gordon' who likes to show You one hand whilst hiding his real actions in t'other decided not 2 have a spending review B4 an election. Criminal I believe.
I'm also a bit of a housebound geek who dips in and out of -parliament etc, I have a long memory - I do remember Vince taking the govt/ opposition to task on the iniquities of our system at that time and to what it could lead to, and the universal derision he met from them. I remember even if 'Labservative' as they've called online in chat & tweets, have deleted cassandra warnings from their collective memory banks.
No one could have known the depth of the financial crisis to come. Just as no one could have known the depth of the criminal stupidity of the trans-atlantic bwankers. I know Vince was not missing in action then, unlike the other two. I don't trust the other two, I’ve seen how they run the govt & opposition scrutiny of govt and i didn't like what i saw. Over successive govt’s they've mucked up our country between them.
I trust team Liberal Democrats and for that reason I joined the party last week, sending them what little money I could afford towards their remaining campaign. I hope that they are returned as a majority govt. Then we will get to see what mature (grown up) modern, progressive, enlightened and equal governance looks like. I wonder whether some of the 'steaming mud' slinging which has characterised the frankly shameful election campaigns of Labservative will stick to libdems and truly deliver a hung parliament - sadly. I say shameful in view of especially the financial crises of last few years the expenses scandal last year and the frankly epic economic black hole into which the country is being sucked. I wonder why any of them want to win - clearly power has an attraction all of its own despite the circumstances.
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