Quote: Timbo @ April 17 2010, 8:52 AM BSTThere has never been a better opportunity to find out. If you are content to vote for one lot of lizards to stop the other lot of lizards getting in, then you deserve to be pissed and shat on.
As I explained in the paragraph you omitted from my quote politics is an exercise in damage limitation. Another way of saying that is politics is an exercise in... politics. Politics exists because there are people and parties and tendencies that CAN'T agree. Socialism and Capitalism are irreconcilable. If you are left wing, the priority for you is to stop a right-wing government being returned. Secondarily you might consider the niceties of Labour's policies or whatever.
The Lib Dems have always pissed me off - they are not a 'third way', just a party of middle-class jam-makers who feel guilty about the poor but hate strikers and are too snobbish to vote Labour. It's true that they take Tory votes, but they mostly split the left wing vote and keep the Tories in power - which is what happened in the eighties.