Forty Reasons to vote Conservative today
The Mail has an excellent piece which you can read at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3069452/The-40-genuine-Tory-triumphs-d-mad-ignore-20-Labour-disasters-WON-T-Ed-s-stone.html
which lists forty Conservative achievements as positive reasons to vote Conservative and also gives twenty reasons not to vote Labour.
There have been two other endorsements for the continuation of the Conservative/LibDem coalition which I found particularly interesting.
Despite being generally a pro-free-market publication, the Economist's support for centre-right parties is never guaranteed: the paper backed Blair in 2001 and 2005. As they are pro-Europe they are not happy that the Conservatives are promising an EU membership referendum, but they reluctantly accept that, quote, "such is the suspicion many Britons feel towards Brussels that a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU is probably inevitable at some point."
Regular readers of this blog will know of my view that this issue which has to be resolved and the decision has to be made by the British people in a referendum.
The Economist are less happy with that position than I am, but nevertheless they have argued that a Conservative-led coalition would be better for Britain than a Labour-led one for reasons you can read at
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21650113-despite-risk-europe-coalition-led-david-cameron-should-have-second-term-who
Another defence of the Coalition government came from the Independent and can be read at
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/in-defence-of-liberal-democracy-10224221.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3069452/The-40-genuine-Tory-triumphs-d-mad-ignore-20-Labour-disasters-WON-T-Ed-s-stone.html
which lists forty Conservative achievements as positive reasons to vote Conservative and also gives twenty reasons not to vote Labour.
There have been two other endorsements for the continuation of the Conservative/LibDem coalition which I found particularly interesting.
Despite being generally a pro-free-market publication, the Economist's support for centre-right parties is never guaranteed: the paper backed Blair in 2001 and 2005. As they are pro-Europe they are not happy that the Conservatives are promising an EU membership referendum, but they reluctantly accept that, quote, "such is the suspicion many Britons feel towards Brussels that a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU is probably inevitable at some point."
Regular readers of this blog will know of my view that this issue which has to be resolved and the decision has to be made by the British people in a referendum.
The Economist are less happy with that position than I am, but nevertheless they have argued that a Conservative-led coalition would be better for Britain than a Labour-led one for reasons you can read at
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21650113-despite-risk-europe-coalition-led-david-cameron-should-have-second-term-who
Another defence of the Coalition government came from the Independent and can be read at
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/in-defence-of-liberal-democracy-10224221.html
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