In the good sense of the term, obviously.
First of all there’s this post. Paragraph of choice follows:
Though I shall be voting at the next election for the return of a Labour government, I regard it as a legitimate position for consistent liberals to vote tactically to defeat the Liberal Democrats – and have indeed advocated this course since I started this site 18 months ago. In the 1980s, when the Labour Party adopted extreme positions and poor leadership, the old Social Democratic Party could be held to serve a valuable purpose in British politics (though I never supported it or voted for it). The Liberal Democrats, who absorbed the SDP, have made recent advances – from a very low base – in the quality of their economic thinking, but overall represent reactionary and sometimes ugly sentiments.
I live in Colchester, Labour can win locally here (as was shown by my own council candidate helped a miniscule amount by the big ol sign erected in my front garden to endorse him to all who face the river) but we haven’t a chance in hell of winning in the GE. So I’ll be voting Tory.
Yes I think Howard is the most pathetic Tory leader since Major, his spurious about-face on Iraq and insistence upon opportunistic posturing where policy would have been better received actually make me nostalgic for IDS or even William Hague. But when I compare him to Charles Kennedy I start reaching for a blue rosette.
Then Kamm offers this:
I don’t know what humanity at large is, but I do know who the victims of Baathist tyranny were, for Coalition forces have been exhuming the bodies from the mass graves for the past 18 months. A professed liberal party with nothing to say to those who lived under - or more properly, survived the violence of - a fascist regime commits a betrayal even greater than marching alongside the totalitarians of the Stop the War Coalition.
Well worth a full read of both articles.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at October 28, 2004 04:53 PM | TrackBack