Dr WHO: I can now see your point and may be I can respond to some of your issues. I think the basis of CHADEMA's partnership with the Conservatives has been plainly explained by Ndabita. Ndabita has also explained the ideological stances of CHADEMA almost exhaustively.
And in his explanation he mentioned that its just partnership and nothing more...so how can Conservatives with small c have just partnership with CHADEMA without having same ideologies? As i said earlier Mbowe confessed this when he was in London last summer so what so wrong about just accepting it?
That said, it is clear that the contemporary world is experiencing ideological bankruptcy.
How can you expand this?
That is why today it is difficult to draw clear boundaries between Conservatives and Labour in terms of the policies they are pursuing. What differentiates them is the style and pace of implementing the policies.Indeed, Blair's Labour is increasingly seen to be pursuing capitalism more so than Cameron's Conservative Party.
don't share your above argument in any way, shape or form.The draconian tax and spending cuts that a Conservative Government would seek to impose will lead inevitably to increases in interest rates and inflation because people with money in their pockets are going to go out and spend it - the housing market will explode which will help all those key workers not one iota - and eventually the UK's economy will go "bust" as it did in the late 80s.Even opinion polls here still regard Gordon Brown as the person who people would trust with the economy and not Oliver Letwin.And based on that small example people think that Brown is doing a pretty good job and as far home owners are concerned ,they wouldn't want to see their mortgage rates shoot up again as it did in the late 80s and early 90s under the conservatives.
In short these two parties differ in each and every single policy except Education reforms which the Tories agreed with Labour and of course an illegal war in Iraq. Moreover i also think both Tory and Labour economic policies are fundamentally flawed. Both raise the spectre of huge "Government savings", (predicated in the Gershon and James reviews) neither of which are worth the paper they were written on. If anyone in SERIOUSLY believes £35 billion of savings will be found by 2007, they are deluded. Neither Party is prepared to confront the British public with the economic truth which is that taxes will have to rise and substantially to cover huge gaps in pensions and other areas of public finance and that people will have to start saving a lot more a lot earlier to pay for their retirement so its fair to say there is a HUGE difference between the two and there is also alot of similarities as well.
In addition to Ndabita's contribution, I personally believe that CHADEMA's alliance with Conservatives is not on the basis of the later trying to contaminate the earlier ideologically. Rather, it is part of the Conservatives's strategic desire to reach out to developing countries that is embedded in its foreign policy.
Well, that's an incredibly short-sighted view on CHADEMA's part, if you don't mind me saying so. This is the same party that supported apartheid in South Africa and Namibia for decades until couple of months ago when David Cameron said sorry...i mean how long has Mandela been free? Now for your information both New Tory and New Labour politicians have frequently used African issues and history as a means to score morality points with potential voters who still believe in the existence of the mythical politician with ethics. Frankly speaking id didnt know that Mr MBOWE was his advisor on Developing countries...but seriously does Mbowe think that Old Etonian like Cameron is going to put pressure on the Oppenheimers to give indegenous South Africans their mines back? (He won't).I will use that as a measure of sincerity. Anything less, then I'll assume he is merely engaging in some good old political points scoring.