5 May (Part 2) - I may come to regret it but…
Well that was the most difficult voting decision ever by a wide margin.
I have switched sides at least four time in the past few weeks. The choice was inevitably
influenced by the worst Government of my lifetime which together with its predecessors, has contrived to get
just about everything wrong, and the certain knowledge that Labour in power would be
worse. Much of what is wrong now can be laid at Tony Blair’s door. Do I want to
see Starmer as Prime Minister? Absolutely not.
Fortunately the election should be about local issues and i believe I should vote on local, or at the
most London matters. There surely cannot be much doubt for anyone who travels
around the capital as I do that all the worst places are Labour controlled and
Sadiq Khan is on a mission to make things worse.
Yesterday Danny Hackett and a prominent Conservative Councillor reminded me of
all those things. I was ready to walk the 100 yards to the Polling Station this morning and
put three kisses against the Tory candidates but I woke up to Mark Brooks’ Retweet of Conservative candidate
Viny Poon’s Tweet.
So provocative, not to say idiotic, that one correspondent thought I must have Photoshopped the picture. How could she expect me to vote for
a candidate prepared to parade herself with someone, in his house by the looks of things, who appeared to be perfectly
happy to run me off the
road just eight months ago?
Danny Hackett’s endorsement had to be ignored.
Three votes for Labour, God help me but what else was I supposed to do?
I shall console myself that if a Tory asks me if I voted for them this time and I say No
I have a pretty good excuse for not doing so. If a Labour candidate asked me the
same question and I had to say No, there would be no wholly local reason to excuse my behaviour.