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Poor Joe Soap, humble voter, was bewildered before... grumbling incessantly over his pint of real ale in his paint peeling pub, that .."theyre all the bleedin same!" This of course in reference to the main political parties.
Yes the man in the street thinks that way, and goes off nowadays ever further afield in search of his political voice, hence the arrival on the scene of the UKIP and/or BNP alternative and so on.
The main parties work hard trying to underline real differences between each other, but the differences are sometimes paper thin.
This notion of sameness was reinforced yesterday on a Tory Blog, no not Barry's one here, but on another, when David Cameron urged all those Blair voters of yesteryear to vote for him.
"Dont vote along tradional lines" Said Dave, going on to urge all those one time Blairites to search him out. You might remember that wave of excitement that surrounded Tony Blair one time..his cross party appeal floundered the Tories for many a year. If you were one of those swept along on that wave of excitement, and you are still out there in Middle England, then David Cameron wants you, yes you!
But I dont think David Cameron is quite up to that level, even though in marketing terms he has tried to re-invent Blair's appeal. I think people now, this time around, will vote , if they bother at all, will vote more out of exhaustion than anything else. Exhausted as the are with the same faces at the top and all longing for a quiet revolution.
But has politics come full circle..have the Tories reinvented themselves so much that they are now just New Labour in a new suit!
