During the election campaign, the Guardian’s Comment Is Free website is publishing posts by a number of about their polling booth intentions. Today, one of their authors, Rebecca Jenkins, declares her hand for Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems. Here’s an excerpt in which she explains why:
I never thought I would say this, but the Tory press has made up my mind for me. It was the array of front pages attacking Nick Clegg on Thursday that did it: the “Nazi” headline, the silly schoolboy word games, and even the Daily Telegraph’s marginally more dignified attempt to make a financial scandal out of a minor error of judgement. …
I do not think Labour and Gordon Brown have done that bad a job but I do think the problems we are facing as a country and a society demand a change of perspective from our governing classes. …
I have been listening closely to the new Conservatives under David Cameron. … He, personally, may be a different kind of politician, but the interests powering his party haven’t changed. They belong to the tired old world and are insufficient to the demands of the present.
And so she concludes:
I have made up my mind. I shall be voting Liberal Democrat.
Thank you, Rebecca. You can read her article in full here.
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To cap it all, this spiteful, baseless little character assassination in the Evening Standard by Sarah Sands, entitled:
“Putting Nick Clegg in his place is easier said than done”
I am just fuming at the jaunty hatchet job she did on him. Little gems like:
“Clegg can say what he likes, he does not have to produce evidence, he will never be tested.”
So the Tories and their press minions have tried trawling through his expenses and every single aspect of his record, yet again and having failed to find anything of note, they return to stamping their foot in exasperated condescension, screaming: “But it was OUR turn in government!” like some petulant little child next to a swing in the playground taken by someone else.
Sadly, Sarah Sands (if its the same Sarah Sands) is going to have an easy ride as Conservative candidate in Thanet (having failed to get the nomination in Folkestone after Michael Howard stood down). An offer of a little financial help from a colleague to give a leg-up to the Liberal Democrat campaign, such as it is in this derelict seat as far as Lib Dem activity is concerned, wasn’t taken up. It would have covered a leaflet print and post-office mail out, but even this couldnt be grasped by neither the local association, or, the regional party. Some Tory candidates have it easy.
Philip Young – Lets hope the new influx of attention and activity sticks and regardless of the election results we’ll be looking at the end of ‘derelict seats’ in the future. We’ve been talking for years about the desire that the progressives in the Labour party would join us and the reds would be left as a economically illiterate and administratively incompetent TUC curio – never has that looked more likely than now.
People are wising up to what we’ve been saying for decades – about the political system, about the establishment bias in the news, about bureaucracy getting in the way of progress, about the two big parties playing pass the parcel and lowering the level of public debate – people are learning for themselves what we’ve been trying to tell them and they’re responding appropriately; it’s a very exciting time!
On “Question Time” last night, even Queen Nicotina (aka Anne Leslie) had to concede that the “Nazi” headline was assinine.
What amazes me about these scribblers is they actually think they are important and their opinions matter. Who the heck is Sarah Sands?