Far too often I've read UKIPpers and Libertarian Party members denouncing the Conservatives and David Cameron and completely missing the point.
Fortunately, Jackart at A Very British Dude does get it; and as he prepares to depart these shores for a while, he has written the following:
"Many people say, quite ignorantly that Cameron is not a Conservative. He is, and a radical one. He and his team have laid out a program which I can heartily endorse. He just needs a mandate to enact it. And in that, Libertarians need to make common cause with conservatives to deliver a Tory government. No Government is perfect, but Cameron's offer is so much better than that of the Labour party, an eye must be on kicking the latter out. And even if you have reservations, voting Tory remains the best option for that end.I've met Jackart (at Steve Green's Westminster event at the end of last May) and know him to be honourable and thoughtful. Here I do believe he has hit the nail bang on the head.
Vote Tory. Use a clothes peg, if you must, though you shouldn't need one, but do so even if your motivation is twisting the knife in Brown's gut. I want to come home with a sun-tan AND a majority Conservative government."
It's not the libertarians and UKIPers we need to worry about.
ReplyDeleteMy ex-wife is currently a student , about to go into work for her only possible employer - the state. She says she will vote Conservative. I asked her why, but she couldn't give me an answer save for the fact that she absolutely hates Brown. She voted for Blair, (twice I believe), but she is the kind of voter that conservatism needs to win in huge numbers - the state's perpetual clients and employees - those who cannot survive outside the warm glove of the state.
UKIPers and Libertarians will almost certainly look at their particular constituency and will vote to kill Labour. But turkeys don't vote for Christmas, and Labours client base will think twice about voting to end the gravy train, because for them the alternative is much worse.
Even though they know it will come to an end, why would they hasten it by voting for it?
So we have to hope that voters who really don't understand the mechanics of economics vote Conservative purely out of hatred for Brown personally.
Well, it's both groups in practice.
ReplyDeleteI have, as you will have seen in the past, done as much as I reasonably can regarding the "client State" voters, who are effectively either bribed or blackmailed into voting Labour (or at the worst at least not voting against Labour, i.e. not voting at all).
These others, who really should be voting to get Labour out are, in many cases, thinking of wasting their vote on an anti-Cameron protest. That would be fine in other circumstances, but not these.
Jackart is, I believe, a member or supporter of the Libertarian Party, but has realised what today's game is (like it or not) and I thought his timely message was also important to spread around a bit in these final days of the election campaign.
I like to think poly-dimensionally y'see ;-)