The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #80812 Message #1476878
Posted By: George Papavgeris
03-May-05 - 07:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Drip, drip, drip.
Subject: RE: BS: Drip, drip, drip.
I am with you 100% Ake. Taking the country to war using lies should be an indictable offence. The fact that there have been no moves to punish Blair for this first from within his party, condemns the whole party in my book. Sorry - this is not Labout in any shape or form. It's a bunch of self-serving liars. The more honourable ones resigned already.
Neither would I vote for the Tories. Apart from their history, Howard's worrying comments on immigration, gypsies etc, his tax promises based on maths that doesn't add up, his party was also complicit in the war.
And so the only one who makes sense is the LibDems. Blair has lost 3 votes to them, in our household, and that may well be for more than just this election.
Neither do I believe Blair's threat about the Tories getting back in "if just 10% of Labour voters abstain". If Blair lied to take us to war, will you believe him on this? Just do the maths yourselves - the data are available on the BBC website; the "10%" claim is pure hokum.
I do believe in the civic duty to express one's wishes through their vote. And I never believed in "tactical voting". Every time it was used as a threat it subsequently proved to have been an empty one.
If we, the people, don't register our disgust at having been lied to so blatantly, then we deserve all we (will surely) get.