As part of a "hard working family" myself, I once had no quarrel with politicians who spoke of governing for the benefit of "hard working families".

However, leading members of the two main parties appear to have acquired a collective bout of obsessional compulsive neurosis, whereby they are unable to speak for more than a few seconds without having to emphatically use that now sickeningly over used soundbite "hard working families" at least half a dozen times.

I am not yet sure, which party I will be supporting, but I certainly will not be voting for any party of obsessional compulsive neortics who think that the election is a race to see who can utter the words the most frequently and the most emphatically.

There are many perfectly decent and deserving people who do not have families, or who through no fault of their own are unable to work. The two main parties appear to regard such people as inferior.

Fair point, but did you really need a whole new thread ?

As Braggtopia said, fair point, etc.

However, the section I've highlighted makes me worry that you didn't vote at all...