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I’m staring at my poll card, realising that, for the first election in over 20 years, I don’t know how I’m going to vote. In the past, I’ve usually voted Liberal Democrat, more from optimism than expectation, but the Lib Dems in government didn’t really work out how I’d hoped. Their role has been to hold the playground bully’s coat rather than hold him back.
The problem is that the mainstream parties seem to have responded to the rise in prominence of UKIP not by repudiating their views but by instead attempting to outdo each other with the nastiness of their policies. I doubt I’m the only person who now feels left behind by the mainstream parties’ stampede to the dark side. Is there still a party out there that cares about people? Where is the party that will take action to…
