3 men sat round a table... then 1 got up

In my university holidays I sometimes used to go to my Grandma’s house on a Wednesday and we would watch Prime Ministers Questions together. She would always say the same thing- ‘ooh turn it off. I don’t like listening to them shout at each other. Why do they have to be so mean?’ I don’t think that it was only my grandma who had that reaction, many people find the adversarial nature of politics a turn off.


Poli-Chick was pleasantly surprised to learn that all three main parties were working together to reform medical care for the elderly. Long term policies such as this work much better with a consensus so that different Governments don’t keep chopping and changing the care system.

Unfortunately, the talks collapsed today. The Tories not only walked away from the negotiations but started a noisy ad campaign blasting Labour for considering a ‘death tax’. All parties agree reform is needed to prevent old people having to sell their homes to fund care. The Lib Dems suggested that all three parties had agreed a set of policies before the Tories pulled out. The Tories disagreed, with Andrew Lansley MP, their shadow Health Minister, stating that although they agreed on a solution, they could not agree on how to fund it.

So no solution yet- but a new Tory poster campaign has been created. Do I hear general election bells ringing?

Poli-Chick xx