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There's a whole world between making compromises, and doing almost exactly the opposite of what you were promising during election time. Anyway, my point wasn'
by w0utert 14y ago
There's a whole world between making compromises, and doing almost exactly the opposite of what you were promising during election time.
Anyway, my point wasn't that there's something wrong with our political system, or that compromises are bad or something. Just that the fact that it's harder for parties to outright lie about the effects of their intended plans, doesn't automatically make them trustworthy.
- Luc 14y agoI see your point. Still, I live in that country to the south of you, so I think you have it pretty good, all things considered :)
- jules 14y agoThis has nothing to do with being trustworthy. Would you rather that they didn't compromise and as a result have other parties form the government, which leaves them without any influence at all? Both parties made compromises.
- w0utert 14y agoMany people voted for the liberal party because they have always promised to represent the working class, stimulate the economy, create jobs, promote free market principles and basically protect upper middle class wealth. What they did here was the opposite of all of these things. Some compromises are to be expected, but the liberal party literally traded everything for just their austerity plans, which also don't benefit their voters directly. Those people feel cheated, and lost their trust in the liberal party. Recent polls show almost half of them would vote differently today. Please note I'm not trying to make a point about the politics themselves, just about the different ways politicians can and will deceive voters even when they can't outright make up facts about the effects of their policies. I didn't vote for either of the two winning parties.