Why am I bothered about this year's General Election?

I'VE never been political – but the current General Election campaign has awoken a monster from inside.

What has riled me is watching, listening and reading the blatant – but very slick – Conservative spin machine conning the British people into possibly putting them into office on Friday.

One thing you can be certain of is that the Tory values are not fair for all. By tradition, the Conservative Party has always been about the individual, not the community

David Cameron’s slogans that he constantly repeats are “The Big Society”, “The Big Idea” and “Change”.

A change to what?

The Big Society is an Old Idea, not a Big Idea – one that was masterminded by Margaret Thatcher herself.

It comes straight out of her dog-eat-dog society, one where everyone is left to fend for themselves.

Cameron keeps saying: “Run your own post office”, “Run your own school”, “Run your own hospital”, and “Run your own fox-hunting event!” …. OK, he didn’t say the last one, I made that one up!

But all this is old hat – it is just a continuation of the mass privatisation that took place during the 1980s and 1990s under the last Conservative governments. They were always hell-bent on breaking up everything. There is nothing new in this. It’s simply a tired, old Tory policy re-packaged.

My grandmother died of cancer in 1989 during a time when you could not get quick access to a NHS specialist. She did not get diagnosed until two days before her death.

The Labour government now are guaranteeing you will be able to see a cancer specialist within TWO WEEKS. It’s something that the Conservative Party has failed to promise. And I have very strong emotions on this subject – having seen two of my relatives suffer and die from this terrible disease, which kills so many people every year.

I also resent a party that allows a tax evader to fund their multi-million pound election advertising campaign.

Also I dread to see a party succeed in cutting inheritance tax for rich and well-off families – while cutting child tax credits for hard-working families. It is just not fair.

Then there is the global financial crisis. This was not caused by the Labour government or Gordon Brown. Everyone knows that …

But, since the collapse of the banks across the world, the Prime Minister acted swiftly to make sure our own banking system did not crash. No-one lost any of their deposits in British banks!

His actions were universally welcomed and won praise from leading independent international financial institutions.

Then he came out and made a guarantee that any person who runs into financial difficulty and cannot meet their mortgage payments will receive government help for two years.

In short, you need not have your home repossessed – a regular occurrence during the last Tory government.

Yes, Labour have not got everything right. Yes, there have been flaws. No-one is saying otherwise.

But what will people be changing to if they vote Conservative?

They will be voting for a party that always will put the interests of the richer minority ahead of the poorer majority. A party that puts an individual’s interests ahead of those of the community.

You will be left to fend for yourself ... govern yourself … look after yourself …

That is what Cameron is actually advocating with his “Big Society” claptrap. For him and his cronies, High Society is what he stands for.

Listen to him, listen to him very good … don’t be fooled by the slick PR skills, read his lips and think … think of this great country’s future … and think of your job, your house, your family and everything you care about. Think what you stand for.

Don’t sleepwalk into a Tory regime …