Tories, Labour come to blows in UK election campaign
Britain’s major political parties, Labour and the conservative Tories trade barbs on the campaign trail ahead of the May 7 general election.
In their latest attack, Conservative Minister Nick Boles slammed Labour leader Ed Miliband, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin would be pleased if he (Miliband) became the next British prime minister.
This came hours after Tory Defence Secretary Michael Fallon provoked a backlash after claiming in an article for The Times that Miliband would be “willing to stab the United Kingdom in the back to become prime minister”.
Fallon's comments came as he suggested that Labour could not be relied on to renew Trident - Britain's continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent.
Meanwhile, Miliband has hit back at the Conservatives, saying they “are offering a campaign based on deceit and lies."
The Labour leader has accused the Tories of "desperate smears."
Now Kevin Ovenden, member of the UK Respect Party's leadership, says the British general election “in the public arena is increasingly about personality, it is about minor things and so on. And this is having the effects of alienating increasing number of voters in Britain.
“So, the British electoral system, the party system and the way of voting has been constructed around the idea that there are two polls. One represented by the Labour party, one by the Tory party. Now we face a situation on 7th of May, in three weeks time, it is most likely that less than two third of people will vote for the two so-called main parties, and so, what we have is a degeneration of the political system in Britain.”
Ovenden told Press TV’s UK Desk on Thursday that “the next British government will be astonishingly weak.
He said: “A significant number of people regard the government as illegitimate, because of the broken political system in Britain, there will be something like a quarter of the population or more will say not just that I don’t like this government whether it is led by Labour or the Tories, but that I don’t believe that this government is legitimate, …and that means that we are headed for some months and years of great political turmoil in Britain.”
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