Which Political Party I Would Vote for and Why

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When I am able to vote I think that I will probably vote for the Conservative party rather than the Labour party or Liberal-Democratic party, mainly because out of the three parties I find that Conservative has the best policies, and the smaller parties are not likely to even come close to winning, since they are either too extreme in their views or too weak to do anything properly so there would be no point in voting for them.

The Labour party has several good policies that I would agree with, such as the policies on families and pensioners, and the policies on education and the environment. However, there are more reasons to vote against rather than for Labour. The policies on immigration and asylum seem to me to not have been very well thought out, and the policy on crime and justice sounds good and looks good on paper but the Labour party has been in power for 8 years now, plenty long enough for a capable government to lower levels of crime, but instead crime levels have been rising. The whole government seems to be too incompetent to solve the simplest of problems, or else when it does try to solve a problem the solution is either poorly thought out and would never work, or else it would work but would cause even more problems and be more trouble than it was worth. The Labour government is slowly crippling the country with its stupidity and overall uselessness. The Labour government has just been a long series of crises interspersed with several catastrophes such as the Iraq war. Another problem with the Labour party government is the NHS cuts and the removal of Crawley hospitals Accident and Emergency department, which to me was not a good thing to do, and there is also the way that the Labour government is now charging Congestion Charge on people who drive in London to try and decrease congestion, instead of trying to improve the road systems. My biggest issue with Labours, however, is the signing of the European Union constitution, which Gordon Brown seems determined to do even though most of the country does not want him to sign it. Gordon Brown seems determined to drag this country down and fill it illegal immigrants and common criminals with no law in the streets, and even now most of the "justice" done in courts makes a mockery of the whole British legal system. I disagree with the idea of letting other people who do not even live on this country have the power to make important decisions which could affect everyone living here, since it would mean that we would not be able to do anything on our own, although Tony Blair started that with his decision to have a closer relationship with America's dim-witted President. Also, there is the issue of Labours view on global warming and world poverty. The Labour government claims to be leading the role on issues such as climate change, world trade, energy security and conflict prevention, however there are problems in the UK such as increasing crime levels, therefore I think it would make more sense to improve the quality of life and the standards of living in the UK, as well as working to prevent more crimes, before trying to solve problems in countries half a world away.

I think that the Liberal-Democrats have better policies than the Labour party, with good policies such as getting rid of the Council Tax, lowering the voting age to 16, and they also have some good policies concerning education and crime. On the other hand, there are also some policies that I do not agree with, such as the leniency on immigration into the UK and the leniency towards asylum seekers, and especially not the policy on ID cards for everyone. There is also the emphasis on the environment that I find to be a bit excessive, especially considering all the problems in society which should be sorted out before thinking about things like the environment and helping other countries. I also have a problem with the Liberal-Democratic party in that I find that it tends to be full of fence-sitters, paper-pushers and tree-huggers who spend more time debating issues than actually solving them, and they take too long to come to a solution to the problems anyway, so that by the time they have a solution the problem has either sorted itself out or gotten even worse so that the first solution is not good enough and another solution is needed, which will also take ages to be decided on. Not only that, the Lib-Dems are also in favour of throwing away power to make our own decisions to foreigners who would not even have the UK's best interests at heart, and they are even in favour of joining the euro and giving up the pound and with it, part of our national identity. The Liberal-Democrats are, I believe, the least noteworthy of the three major parties, and for good reason, since under a Liberal government the country would probably stagnate or, if they were even more inept than the Labour