Kamm to vote Conservative?
Oliver Kamm urges everyone to vote Labour, and makes some excellent points about the quality of their campaign, their obsessive focus on Blair's character despite the own untrustworthy nature of their own leader, and the nasty tone about immigration.However, remarkably, he himself is to vote for the Conservatives, as their candidate supports the war in Iraq and the Labour candidate doesn't.
It [the Labour candidate's opposition to the war in Iraq] does put those of us who support the revolutionary cause in a tricky position. As it happens, the Tory candidate, Nicholas Boles, is one of the few in his party who it is reasonable to assume would extend consistent and principled support to Tony Blair's foreign policies...There may be other cases, but this is the only one I have come across where, in a marginal seat, a supporter of progressive policies would have good cause to welcome the election of a Conservative candidate.
Update: There's a long profile about Boles in the FT today. Seems an ok bloke, with one major political idea,'localism' (ie political devolution).
posted by Matthew @ 4/30/2005 03:50:00 PM
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