Their micro-management of national services in the aim of churning out self-congratulatory production figures; their social engineering obsession and reality-shaping conceit; their suppression of our right to demonstrate; their feverish law-creation; their buying of voters by creating ghettos reliant on their support; their intrusion in private social affairs in which government should really have no say; their disregard for popular feeling in formulating international policy; their love of all-encompassing databases and close surveillance; their undermining of competing power structures through enforced compromise under the guise of a respectful multiculturalism; their meddling in the universities and reduction of intellectual activity to yet more productivity figures; their bone-headed recycling of communist tropes, seemingly with no awareness of their often dubious history (the 'tsars', the rising sun of their manifesto cover etc).
Government has been getting too large and intrusive and I'm attracted by any party that promises a diminution of its influence.
oh, you meant 'communism' (Stalinist state socialism), not communism. not being picky, but there's a monumental difference (um, and tsars aren't really a communist trope under any definition!)
and c'mon, suppression of the right to demonstrate (!), undermining of competing power structures, intrusion in private social affairs* etc - have you checked the record of the 1979-1997 Tory governments? As to self-congratulatory production figures/reduction of intellectual activity to more production figures, that's a FAR wider problem than this last Labour government.
but a diminution of government influence is only half of that issue - what will come in its place is the other half. as i recall, tory governments are pretty intrusive upon people's lives - it's just that they reserve this intrusion for the poorer parts of society.
not sticking up for New Labour, obviously, but i don't see the point in voting for something that is likely to be even worse. What good things will the Tories do, in your opinion? Apart from try to privatise everything else that hasn't already been privatised, of course...(including education, making it easier to start up new private academies; and new schools get paid for attracting pupils!). Cameron is on record as being a big fan of Thatcher - nuff said.
*and Cameron is pledging to recognise marriage in the tax system! That strikes me as pretty fucking intrusive.
Edit: But they will "challenge racism and bigotry in all its manifestations". Best start chasing your own tail...