The UK Election

The UK election is expected on this Thursday, May 6. UK elections are conventionally held on Thursdays. The three major parties, Labour Party, Conservative Party or Tory, Liberal Democrats are competing for seats in Parliament. All seats are single member plurality system. While the Liberal Democrats seem to be favored in the polls, votes will not be represented in the seats proportionally. Who would oppose -- nuclear disarmament, going green, closer ties with EU, and revision of tax systems and public spending? If the establishment can not speak up, then new voices would have impacts.

What I surmise is that even in UK, such things as scandals and gaffes mean something in terms of setting the trends in politics. Those political issues are hard to grasp the meaning of. When the huge war machines are paying up the politicians, the expenses on their gardens seem less in comparison. When so much is at stake, when lives are at stake, a disappointing comment from the PM could only be some indication of something more important as his character or what not. BAE pays fines of £285 million over arms deal corruption claims. The UK fatalities in Afghanistan since 2001 stands at 282.

How do they picture the Tory's leader? UK's FM David Miliband claims the party take isolationist stance that it has no confidence in UK -- to stand up for its interests in EU. His quote consists of depicting himself as a non-nonsense politician, and something like -- compassionate conservative.

Would he be compassionate? His quote says "we are all human and we err and stray" (he does blame upon the UK government in its handling of the war in Iraq) "So when it comes to the special relationship with America, Conservatives feel it, understand it and believe in it" (he stated the troops start coming home in the next Parliament).

Tell me -- do UK voters like changes?

But the media changes of their stances are seemingly what the law is trying to prevent -- the last minute rush to buy up the influential.

Their welfare is much more than that of Japan, and let alone the United States.

We will know the answer on Thursday.