7 Comments

• Hugh 17th Jan '10 - 1:45pm

  Ms Benson seems to be a strong candidate but as unwelcome as a Labour retake of Reading East would be, giving them another Commons majority, a Tory win further down their target list in Reading West would likely result in an equally harmful Tory majority.  Alas in Reading West it is only Labour who can stop this and so Lib Dems should be urging their support to vote Labour, or at least trying to pick up their votes from the Tories.  In Reading East the opposite is true. 

• Andrew Suffield 17th Jan '10 - 2:59pm

  There are no circumstances under which it is justifiable for any political party to instruct its own supporters (as a whole) to vote for a different party. If you give up on your beliefs that easily then you shouldn’t be standing for election at all.

• Mark Reckons 17th Jan '10 - 4:09pm

  Hugh.

  Rather than spend your time trying to get people to vote for “the least worst” option, perhaps you should spend it campaigning for a change to the rotten electoral system that opens us up to this sort of disenfranchising tactical voting. Then people could vote for whoever they wanted free in their knowledge that their vote would count.

• Sesenco 17th Jan '10 - 5:01pm

  The only way to get Liberal Democrat policies implemented is to vote Liberal Democrat. Cameron is marginally more odious than Brown, but neither differs that much in their subservience to Washington, their enthusiasm for the control agenda and their willingness to be the lickspittle of the super-rich. If you vote Liberal Democrat you may not get Liberal Democrat, but if you vote for something else, you can be sure that you will never get Liberal Democrat.

• Reading Observer 17th Jan '10 - 5:19pm

  ‘Hugh’ posts this garbage, anonymously, on all Reading websites.

  A Labour retake of Reading East is not going to happen. They have imploded since deselecting Jane Griffiths and lost most council seats. The only challenger to the Tories there is Lib Dem Gareth Epps.

• Warren Swaine 17th Jan '10 - 6:01pm

  Well, as Daisy’s agent I think that Hugh has posted complete tripe… but then I would wouldn’t I ;0)

  Labour are going to get a drubbing in Reading West which is the reason that Martin Salter stood down. Naz is a nice enough chap, but gaff prone http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/4523646.WALTHAMSTOW___Hapless__Naz_is_Youtube_sensation/

  If anything it’s Labour supporters who should get behind the only credible candidate standing if they want to prevent a Tory win.

• Andrew 18th Jan '10 - 7:50am

  And congratulations to Cllr Nigel Jones, selected last Friday to fight our corner in Newcastle-under-Lyme.