and appealing to the rich, and to the rather larger number of people who hope to be rich one day.

The only good thing about the Tories is that at least they're better than UKIP.

The Skin

...the Tories have followed Labour's lead and put an extremely similar leading question on the front page of their website.

Am I alone in thinking that a political party website should be about informing people about that political party rather then grabbing as much personal information as possible from visitors to the site?

The spam they got sent begging for donations sounded more like stalking than the actions of a responsible party. And that was the Democrats.

...I'm increasingly of the view that American politics is becoming much less relevant as an example of how to do things.

American politics is still very much a 2 party affair, British politics is moving further away from that. And I'm not convinced that the leadership of the main parties have much idea of how to win people back to their causes.

the paucity of political ambition from either Labour or Tories is utterly dispriting - most of what they're talking about barely even qualifies as tinkering around at the edges. what they haven't grasped in seeking to appeal to as many voters as possible is that they've blanded themselves to the point of irrelevence.

where's the 'build HS2 to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Swansea and Truro'? where's the 'build 500,000 affordable/social family homes by 2022'?, where's 'double the size of the RN's escort force to the number Labour said were required in their well-regarded SDR of 1998 - 35 if anyone is interested?', where's 'halve housing benefit/LHA to get the buy-to-let reptiles out of the market?'

i know its nostalgia and rose-tinted glasses to look on every generation of politicians as inferior to the previous ones, but the current lot are just woeful.

For the party who have decided that a cynical and unnecessary general election before the shit hits the fan is exactly what this country needs.....

As bad as the Tories were in 2015, they have managed to regress considerably since then.

Plenty of old threads from previous elections that I will be bringing back to the top for the election, because they are relevant. Starting off with the Conservatives, as they are the governing party.

In the case of the Conservatives, the first thing you come across on their website is their promoting an App called "Share2Win".

Will be doing this for other parties in due course, although the far right will have to have a new thread due to their current tendency to form new parties.