C’mon, I’m in my final few months, what do you expect?
I’ve got so much to write about the election but I also have several tomes to read on Carriage of Goods By Sea and therefore I’ll have to postpone much of the blogging (which I was quite looking forward to). I’ve only time to write now because the bus that normally whisks me off to Colchester breezed past me without so much as halting, I hate new bus drivers.
Anyhow here’s a good article to read. It has been related to me by a good friend of mine that I “Worship Tony Blair”, now that may not be true but I am of the opinion that he is arguably the best statesman Britain has seen over the course of this past half century and that he is a massive electoral asset. This article deals with the slightly foolish portion of the left who insist on lionizing Brown over Blair. Mr Brown is a superlative Chancellor, I don’t know how he’ll do as a prime minister when the time comes but I can tell you now that Blair is bloody good at it.
Now for some 1 paragraph comments on most of the Election news:
The Lib Dems are WELCOME to Brian Sedgemore, now if they’d be kind enough to take Livingstone off our hands I’d be rather indebted to them. I think accepting a far-left wingnut who more or less owes his electability to New Labour’s appeal to the centre is a stupid move by the Lib Dems but it does show how far they’ve come and to what depths of British politics they shall now sink - Welcome to the Loony Left lads.
My vote will be cast in North Essex, a Conservative stronghold. I am at least happy that the Conservative candidate is one of the most agreeable MPs I have ever met. Bernard Jenkin is competent, upstanding and generally a nice fellow to talk to in my experience, more importantly he’s well versed in local matters and is articulate in Parliament. If I can’t have a Labour candidate it’s just as well the Tory candidate isn’t a total write-off.
Personally I’d much rather vote in Colchester. I have no idea which way that’s going to sway but I’d do anything to get rid of Bob Russel the incumbent Lib Dem, even if that would mean tactically voting Tory. No matter how horrifically a Conservative government would harm our Public Services it is the fairer choice set against the fall of Britain on the world stage, the outrageous tax & spend policies which would destroy any notion of a high spending government in the future and complete subservience to the European Union which doesn’t look on healthy footing as a political body at the moment.
That’s all for now!
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at May 4, 2005 11:41 AM