I would sup with the devil...
The Economist says,"The Tories, after their disgraceful opportunism this week (on tuition fees and just about everything else), look no more impressive than they did under the wretched Iain Duncan Smith",
nevertheless The Economist is not particularly on the ball these days and it seems pretty ridiculous to charge Michael Howard with opportunism over the Hutton Report (as I did a few days ago) given it had nothing to do with him.
I say this merely as an introduction to announcing that after this week's relevations, the new policy of this site is that any PM would be better than Tony Blair. Preferably that means a different Labour PM, but after this week's events we must reconcile ourselves with the fact that he will, if he wants, lead Labour into the next election.
Thus we are left with Charles Kennedy and Michael Howard. I don't know much about the former, but thanks to Oliver Kamm's wide-ranging and helpful articles on their policies and personalities I now do, and I like what I see. Nevertheless we have to face facts that the Kennedy is not going to be PM after the next election. Thus that leaves Michael Howard, a man whose record on truthfulness makes Blair's look good, whose handling of most of his ministerial posts has been terrible, personal beliefs, one of which is listed above, are nonsensical and whose short reign as leader of the Tory party has been pathetic. He also leads a party whose views I find abhorrent, whose MPs on the whole are obscene and immoral, and who would without doubt lead this county into economic and social disaster.
However they still aren't Tony Blair. Thus with a heavy heart I have decided to contribute further to their electoral fighting fund. Vote Tory!
posted by Matthew @ 1/30/2004 10:14:00 AM
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