How's The Coalition Government Doing?

[Gromit]

Cameron and Clegg have given their mid term assessment, what is yours?

Also,

Monday's report had a section missing. They were hoping to quiety release an annex to it today which lists all the election pledges they have missed/u-turned and generally failed to deliver on.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9789256/Coalition-misses-70-election-pledges.html

Do you think the omission and the plan to sneakily add it at a later date, was a tad dishonest?

[Kromovaracun]

I feel the country is significantly worse under the Coalition govt. Cameron has overseen ideology-driven cuts thinly disguised as fishy economic principles - all criticism has been ignored, and he and George Osborne have put their (otherwise totally incompetent) PR machine to work convincing everyone that it's the only conceivable way.

Clegg is a toad, but I can't have say I have much sympathy with those who put him in a position of power or influence in the first place. In my view, it was always obvious that he was a totally spineless, unprincipled man. I remember being not a little depressed by the flurry of optimism (which was at least extant in my circle of friends - who were mainly students) that surrounded his appearance.

As for Labour... I really can't say they look much better. I think the evidence does support their policy toward cutting public spending much better than it's ever supported the government's. But I think Ed Miliband is a pathetic creature - the incident that summarised him for me was when he went to a Gregg's somewhere shortly after the 'Pasty Tax' fiasco. He's as much a vacuous, spineless PR-obsessed snake as Cameron is. He is an utterly feeble leader of the Opposition. I loathe him.

Honestly, despite my aversion to UKIP I can well understand why people seem to be more willing to vote for them. At the moment, it seems to me that UK politics has a feeling about it which is somewhere between a giant obligatory funeral for someone who everyone secretly hated, and a big windowless office full of people with absolutely no skills or competence.

Frankly, I hope more people who are my age (and younger) are put off participating in politics or giving it any credence because that seems to be the only thing that scares anyone any more. I spoiled my ballot in the 2010 election, and will continue doing so (assuming I don't go off voting completely) for the foreseeable future.