David Cameron writes about the next election





There are just 200 days to go until the next General Election - and it is the most important for a generation.

For four years, the British people have worked hard to raise our country out of recession - and we are now growing faster than any other major advanced economy in the world, with record numbers of people in work.

That means more peace of mind for millions of families - more parents being able to provide for their children.

Our long-term economic plan is working - and at the next election, we can either continue on that path or throw it all away.

We have the chance to make Britain even greater: a place where reward truly follows effort; where your destiny is not decided by where you're from, but how much effort you put in; where we remain able to provide for the poorest, the sick, the elderly; where morally, culturally and economically our country stands tall in the world.

A Labour Britain hardly bears thinking about. All Ed Miliband offers is more spending, more borrowing, more debt, more taxes.

So just imagine what would happen: our government racking up more debt; interest rates and mortgage rates going up; businesses crushed under punishing taxes; jobs leaving our shores; a great nation slipping back into decline.

I don't want this to happen - and if you don't either, please donate £20 to our campaign today.

The next election is a straight fight: the Conservatives or Labour. There is no third way - a vote for UKIP is a vote for Labour.

We can't throw away the progress we've made. Instead, we've got to continue with the long-term plan that is working.

So please - make a donation today:

Donate 20 pounds today

Thank you,

David Cameron

Comments

Jim said…
" There is no third way - a vote for UKIP is a vote for Labour.

Ok Dave, I know Barroso went on Andrew Marr and gave you a dig on your cunning renegotiation plan, so perhaps you arn't thinking straight.


Let me help you out here Dave, I'm nice like that. A vote for a UKIP candidate is a vote by aperson saying they want a UKIP MP. Even if i had all the inclination in the world Dave, I still could not vote to make you PM again, I don't live in Witney.
Chris Whiteside said…
What DC is getting at is that if people who would otherwise have voted Conservative vote UKIP, the result could easily be a Labour government.

"Vote X, Get Y" is a form in which politicians in this country have traditionally expressed tactical voting messages for decades.

Yes, it's an oversimplification, but it's also been used so often that most people know exactly what it means, and it's as true this time as it ever is.
Jim said…
Well his first error is to assume that the UKIP voters would have otherwise have voted conservative. As for tactical voting tequniques, well, if my aim was to get a labour MP then lets weigh up my options I could "vote ukip in order to attempt split the conservative vote, and hope that enough other people vote labour to ensure labour win. Or I could use the amzing tactic of putting a cross beside the labour box.

The fact of the matter is a vote for a UKIP candidate is a vote for a UKIP MP, A vote for a Conservative candidate is a vote for a Conservative MP, a vote for a Labour candidate is a vote for a Labour MP.

Its like saying dont vote for the party you want, instead vote for the party you do not want, in order to stop the party you really dont want.

at very best you will end with with what you did not want, which is hardly an attractive option.
Chris Whiteside said…
No, he's assuming not assuming that all of them would have voted Conservative but that more of them would have voted Conservative then Labour, and he is not alone in thinking that.

What's more to the point, it is more likely to be true of those who are listening to him in the first place.
Jim said…
well there is that.

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