Desperate Measures

[poliphilo]

The Lib Dems swept by this morning with the lowest piece of campaign literature I've seen yet.  Clearly run off at the last minute- in smudgy black and white on cheap paper-  it whores for the Asian vote by pointing out that the Labour candidate is a friend of israel and their guy (who used to work for a Saudi sheik) isn't.  Borderline anti-semitic, I'd say.

Shortly afterwards the Tories came down the street with a loud speaker van. I don't know what the point of those things is. You can never hear a word that's being said.

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Dirty politics

[methodius.livejournal.com]

It seems you have a choice between a warmonger, a warmonger and a warmonger. I watched a couple of debates, and wondered why none of them mentioned the elephant in the room.

I was in the UK during a general election 44 years ago, and the Tories had one of those loudspeaker vans back then too. Just managed to catch the name of the candidates, Duncan Sandys, whom I'd read about in the newspapers for his role in negotiations over Rhodesian UDI. Not much changes.

Re: Dirty politics

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They all carry on as if the only significant issue relating to the war in Afghanistan is whether "our brave soldiers" have been issued with the right equipment.

At least Clegg would get rid of Trident.

Re: Dirty politics

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

Yeees - but they will, it seesm, go for almost any other nuclear weapon, provided that it isn't fired out of a submarine.

Re: Dirty politics

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I wish we'd stop pretending to be a major military power. It's not good for us.

Re: Dirty politics

[methodius.livejournal.com]

True, but he didn't press home his argument -- when Camerone was talking about "waste", replacing it isd surely a prime example of it. Perhaps its a holy cow rather than an elephant.

Re: Dirty politics

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The nuclear deterrent is what keeps us at the high table with the big boys. It would be a fearless politician who decided to scrap it altogether.