Your kingdom for a share.

It looks like the Tories are offering to sell you a cheap share in return for your vote. It seems like a good plan. When they get sold back to the open market you should have an option to get some cheap, they are your shares after all.

I make no secret of my anti-Conservative politics. I'm not a mad socialist or anything like that, but out of the major parties they are my least favourite. I actually think there is room for the free market in the same society as the welfare state. I like the basic ideas of capitalism, akin to how I like the basic ideas of universal health care and other social welfare solutions.

But back on topic. When I heard about the share plan I thought "that's a really good idea" and I got worried. I don't want a Tory government and this seems like it might help them get there. Then I thought about it, and I realised just what kind of topsy turvy Robin Hood they're playing at here.

Only Plato and Hume really get away with dialogue format, but I'm going to give it a bash;

Tory Government(TG): Hey public, want some cheap shares?!

General Public(GP): Well yeah, who wouldn't??

TG: I'll tell you who wouldn't, Labour and the Lib Dems...

GP: But if we vote for you we'll get cheap shares?

TG: Hell yeah. It'll be like when we sold off British Gas and BT.

GP: Cool... wait... the government already own a load of bank shares, right?

TG: Well, yeah. We're gonna sell them to you and give you a discount :)

GP: But you would represent me and everyone else as the government, yeah?

TG: We will, when you vote us in. Then it's share-a-palooza, baby!

GP: So, (we) the government bought the shares with (our) tax money, yeah?

TG: Yeah, those stinky Labour folk wasted your money on them...

GP: So you used MY money to buy them... and now you think you're doing ME a FAVOUR by letting me use MORE OF MY MONEY to buy them back when I de facto OWN THAT SHIT ALREADY?!

TG: Well, when you put it like that...

Let all go vote Conservative!