A friend confided he’d vote for a monkey, so long as the monkey wore a blue Conservative rosette.
I remembered those wise words when confronted with three postal voting papers for the election of London Mayor and London Assembly. I do not want to see the Conservative candidate as Mayor of London; I am indifferent to the Conservative candidate for the assembly and I’m infuriated that my vote for another candidate is on a party list. A party list is not a VIP invitation to Tramp, it means the party chooses the candidate. So how did I deploy my votes? Remembering my friend’s wise words I voted Conservative, Conservative and Conservative.
The government is properly called to account and if the worst charge is the redecoration of the Prime Minister’s flat that’s fine by me. I don’t give a flying fruit bat about that or his persuading Dyson to make ventilators – two-way vacuum cleaners. What I admire is the government’s vaccine programme. I (67) have had two jabs. A friend in Dublin (70 plus) has not had one. Failures by government are made much of but successes never. That’s why Winston Churchill lost the General Election in 1945 and why Boris Johnson will lose the next election.