Toynbee: Not voting New Labour is like bombing civilians
So we’ve had emotional blackmail, insults, scare tactics and foreign policy promises. Now we’ve got gimmicks.
Posting on the Guardian election blog yesterday, Polly Toynbee offered nose pegs to encourage reluctant New Labour voters to get out there and vote for the team. She started quite an outpouring in the comments section.
She rounded off her post with:
Don’t turn the poor in the UK into yet more innocent collateral damage of the Iraq war.
Now, she might have a point, and I don’t know about you, but I don’t plan on casting my vote with a cluster bomb from 35,000 feet.
Comparing my not wanting to vote New Labour with the bombing of civilians? You know, I think she’s convinced me.
(Thanks to John Ward for the link.)
Posted on April 14th, 2005 at 10:39 am
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Who! I’m famous…
Insofar as the twelve people who visit here regularly might come and see you, yes you are famous!
By the look of your scores on the ‘who should i vote for’ post, you’re convinced already †Polly or not.
The thing is that I opposed the Iraq war, so why should I feel responsible for further ‘collateral damage’ resulting from it. Surely just a few more casualties of Blair’s philosophy of ‘when you’re in a hole, keep digging’.
i don’t like toynbee, she struggles to make her points and insults intelligence as she does so, but do you really want Labour out that much that you are prepared to let Howard in ?
the point is: split the radical vote, and you let in something far worse.
If the radical vote votes for the centre-right, then you aren’t ever going to see radical policies.
Is it worth the risk of Howard getting in with absolute majority(very small)- absolutely. I would rather see a hung parliament with Tory majority than a Labour landslide (which would allow Blair to claim he had been vindicated).