If either the Tories or New Labour win outright on the 6th of May, there will be a lot more people who will pretty rapidly become members of David 'Call me Dave' Cameron's new exclusive club 'the great ignored'. Membership of which may end up including significant numbers of people in Wales, Scotland, the north of England and many English urban areas.
While the electorate in Wales and Scotland can have a real choice at the polls, the depressing lack of any real choice facing the English electorate ("cuts or more cuts") may come to really rue the day for the inhabitants on Wales and Scotland. It may come down (in England at least) to a choice of the lesser of two evils - sleaze ridden inept New Labour or a potentially sleaze ridden Conservative Party eager to get its snouts into the trough - some choice!
While New Labour abandoned it's historic traditional supporters to eagerly slip into the embrace of the bankers and the City Money men, it also turned its back on the UK's manufacturing industry, something that had pretty severe consequences across much of South Wales. One thing is certain you can be sure that the Conservatives will look after their own and the rest of us will pay for it (and the tax cuts for the super rich) again and again.
In truth, we (in Wales) need to think different, we need to think Plaid. Neither Wales or Scotland can afford the consequences of either a New Labour or a Conservative election victory as they are as bad and each other. A plague on both their houses, roll on a hung parliament and a strong Plaid voice of Wales in Westminster, only then can we get a better deal for all of Wales.
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