Vanessa, I really, really don't care. I'm not a party political animal at all. I happen to view all three main parties (and their leaders) as pretty much as bad as each other, certainly as pale shadows of their political forebears, but I certainly don't want to get into the "professional politician" argument again.
It's just that to my mind this bunch of tories are very, very marginally the best of a bad lot, which is not exactly saying much. My post was more about the spectacle than point scoring. I can't believe that whoever advises EdM didn't rehearse the possibility that he might ambush him with a "yes" answer, especially when that most political of chancellors pointedly refused to rule out a VAT rise yesterday, rather carefully baiting the trap which EdM walked into with both eyes open. I find it hard to believe Blair would've fallen for that one. |