This coming Thursday British voters have a chance to choose their government in national parliamentary elections.  Unlike the fraudulent change Barack Obama seduced American voters with in 2008, the British electorate has the chance to embrace real qualitative change.  For the past 13 years, Britain has been run by the leftist Labour Party which has won three straight elections.  The Prime Minister from 1997-2007 was Tony Blair.  Blair, to his credit went against leftist peacenik loons in his own party, to support military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and numerous British soldiers have paid the ultimate sacrifice for this.  For this first couple of years in power, Labour even adhered to the previous Conservative Government's spending targets.

Beyond that things get ugly.  A country I admire deeply has become mired in debt due to the spending spree initiated by Blair and his Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasury Secretary) Gordon Brown who has been Prime Minister since 2007.  Crime has become a big problem in Britain due to politically correct Labour ideology that gives criminals, instead of the police and law-abiding citizens, the benefit of the doubt in legal proceedings.  The absence of the death penalty makes matters worse as even the most violent criminals get taxpayer subsidized food and medical care.  Multicultural mush has lead to an huge influx of extremist Muslims who do not share western democratic values of freedom of religion and pluralism.  The 2005 London bombings and other arrests of such individuals in terrorist plots is further illustration of multiculturalism's failure.  The response of Brown and his leftist cognoscenti to public concerns about this is absolute arrogance.  This past week a woman (who was a Labour Party supporter) came up to Brown while he was campaigning and expressed her concerns about these matters.  Brown got into his car and, forgetting he was on a live microphone, muttered that this woman was a bigot.   Such a typical leftist response to anyone with the audacity to disagree with their world view on any issue especially if it involves the talismanic phrase "diversity."  Needless to say, you know what hit the fan in British media coverage of this.  Brown went back to the woman's house to "apologize" the next day and, to her credit, she refused to appear in public with him.

Another wild cared in this campaign has been the rise of the Liberal Democratic Party.  There's actually been a Liberal Party in England since the 1800's that actually stood for free markets and restrained government spending at one time under leaders like 19th century Prime Minister William Gladstone.  The modern incarnation of this party is lead by Nick Clegg who did fairly well in the first of three leadership debates with Brown and Conservative leader David Cameron and caused many leftist hearts to get that tingly feeling Chris Matthew gets about Barack Obama.  The Liberal Democrats are leftists without the union background of Labour and are generally more affluent.  Utopian fool Clegg actually favors eliminating Britain's Trident submarine nuclear deterrent, imposing a sales tax on the sale of new homes, and promoting amnesty for illegal aliens.  The reaction to such policies in the U.S. would be radioactive and it's been equally radioactive in Britain as well.   The Liberal Democrats rise has them running neck and neck with Labour for second place and may actually produce a hung parliament in which no party has a majority and may have to try to govern with the Liberal Democrats support.  Talk about a recipe for chaos and paralysis!

Under Cameron's leadership, which has stressed the need to decrease Britain's debt, provide sufficient support for British military forces, and recognizes the critical importance of the family in British societal development, the Conservatives have a modest lead in the polls and look like they'll get the first chance to form a government.  They have been airing television ads warning of the consequences of a hung Parliament and how critical it is that they get a clear majority so they can began cleaning up the mess left by Labour.  Cameron has done a good job expanding the Conservatives appeal to ethnic minorities who wish to assimilate and be valued law-abiding members of British society.  He has a good support team of George Osborne (the potential Chancellor of the Exchequer) and William Hague a former Conservative Party leader who is likely to become Foreign Secretary.  Hopefully, the British electorate will have the intelligence to end their drunken thirteen year orgy with leftist imbecility and elect a majority Conservative Government and begin the road back to greater societal cohesion, economic solvency, and international credibility which has made Britain one of the world's great countries.