Politics

I am trying, by watching things like 'Question Time' and what not, to decide who to vote for. But I will tell you, I don't think I'm closer to figuring it out.

I get that they have three major parties; Labour led by Gordon Brown, Conservative led by David Cameron and Liberal democrats led by Nick Clegg. I have tried hard to actually figure out what each of the parties are saying they are going to do but it's all so confused. Instead of telling us what they could do for us as a government, each party just seems to spend most of it's time telling us why we shouldn't elect the other parties. It means that I have a massive list of reasons why NOT to vote for each one but few reasons as to why I SHOULD vote for any of them.

This makes me not want to bother voting at all.

I know who I definatly WONT be voting for and thats the BNP or the less up front racist UKIP. My stepfather told me he was voting for UKIP and to be honest, that explains everything about him.

Why can't we simply have a diagram- political parties along the top and sectors (such as education, employment, foreign policy ect.) along the left and can we be told what it is they want to do. Straight forward. No jiggering or sound biting, just facts about what they want to do if they got into government.

Because to be honest, right now, I don't know if I'm even going to bother casting my vote in an election which just seems like an insult slinging contest so far.