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Over recent years, it has become increasingly obvious that the labels ‘Conservative’ and ‘Labour’ have ceased to have any distinct meanings.

These once great political parties no longer represent different values, and their claim to stand in opposition to each other has become false.

The truth is that they now fundamentally agree on almost every one of the great issues of our time: foreign policy, the role of the state, the level of taxation and so forth. Where there still are disagreements, these tend to be artificial and largely rhetorical.

As a result, Conservative and Labour politicians have far more in common with each other than they do with the voters. They have become a single political class.

At least someone in the MSM is catching on, if you can describe thisislondon.co.uk as MSM; but as usual there is no mention of the reason why all the main parties are so close on most of the issues? Because most issues are now decided in a different forum than our national parliament and the rules and regulation emanating from that forum do bind any political party we care to elect. Unless a political party shows it willing to reassert power within the nations own parliament there is very little room left for manoeuvre, which is why only those parties which stand on a platform of leaving the EU can offer different policies.

But just in case we being to vote in very large numbers for those parties the elite political class is raising the bar, as now they want to redress their falling membership and the corresponding reduction in their finances by demanding that they should be even further isolated from any pressure to offer policies we are willing to pay for, by forcing us to pay anyway through the tax system. This will have the double affect of allowing the three main parties to dip their hands into the public purse without the need to consider that their policies are not wanted by the majority of the population, and at the same time make it even harder for any other party break into the golden circle.

A further reason to object most strongly to this contrivance of the main parties is that elections to our parliament are supposed to be free and there should be no encumbrances placed in the way of anyone whishing to stand. The sort of payments suggested will require some form of government organisation to oversee and conduct the procedure of counting the votes and making the payments this will require some form of government recognition of political parties, and we can imagine where that might lead, we already have an indication from the EU that limit payments to parties and groupings which do not conform to its objectives.