Unfortunately the only European governments that have an open policy of job protectionism is France and Germany. The British government do not have that power any more due to the Thatcherite governments from 79-97 and such a policy would go against the Conservative party ideals of free market economy. And a European embargo would be almost impossible as most of the old eastern block countries where the jobs are going to are now in the EU anyway.

I don't think any of the parties have an answer about what to do. The problem we in Britain have at the moment is the same economic policies that gave Britain the good times from about 1994 to 2006 are the same policies that have landed us in the shit now but as we were only following Americas policies it's not all the various chancellors fault. However the reaction to the banking crisis is purely Labours fault but then the Tories have no answer of how to get out of it.

I know which parties I will not vote for under any circumstances (BNP, UKIP, Green). And Labour are out for outsourcing jobs to India which smacks of hypocrisy. Which is the latest in a long line of cock-ups for me. For me Tories are out as it's difficult to forget the Thatcher years, they want to tear the BBC apart, in the expenses scandal they proved they haven't changed, the entire shadow cabinet is oilier than the great barrier reef and I find that David Cameron's wife being pregnant at election time just a bit too convenient.

That leaves me settling for the Lib Dems, a party who nobody can recall any of their policies other than proportional representation (which I oppose) and a cabinet that nobody knows except for Ming Campbell purely because his name is Ming and you can't help but think of Ming the Merciless.

So all in all I'm stuck as to what's left. It may end up being who I would least like to watch being wiped out by a terrorist attack.