I'll feel a guilty conscience grow

[chess]

Looking at the coalition outcomes - I can't help but feel guilty.

Basically, everything that I would benefit from personally, the government is planning to do.

I'm married. I earn an above-average but not collossal salary. I'm not involved in the banking industry or speculative investment. We get the start of electoral and constitutional reform. I'm native to this country. I'm no longer at school and don't intend to have children. I supported nuclear power anyway. I like my civil liberties.

But some horrible things are still going through, which will hurt my friends, people of my tribe.

The welfare 'reforms'. The 'signal' of the marriage tax allowance.


So even though I have no particular responsibility for any of this, and it is probably the best that anyone could have expected to come out of this - I feel guilty.

Comments

[ed-fortune.livejournal.com]

It could have been worse, we could have had a Tory majority.

At least this way we end with a fairer electoral system.

Also, the austerity that has to come? The massive public funding cuts? That's not going to go down well with anyone. This may be the last hurrah for the blues.

And hopefully the start of a fairer, harder working political system.

[zaitan.livejournal.com]

We MAY end up with a fairer system. I believe the Tories are reserving the right to campaign against the proposal to ditch First Past the Post.

Given that coalitions would be more common, Rupert Murdoch and friends would be against it as it would be more difficult to extract concessions from parties that get his support.