A few days ago, I made a somewhat disparaging comment about my local Conservative MP. I’d asked whether the Tories had any plans to revisit the public smoking and hunting bans. Yes to the latter and no to the former came the answer. Bugger the lot of them I thought. Each as bad as the next.
A couple of days later, I was loitering on the blog of the Liberal candidate for Westminster dancing a small jig of delight at his open opposition to Westminster Council’s bird-brained tax on motorbike parking. In the heat of the moment I left a comment dedicating myself to a glorious Liberal Democrat landslide at the election followed by a bonfire of all oppressive legislation and the issuing of self-knit muesli sandal kits to every one of Her Majesty’s loyal subjects.
What a cheap tart I am. That’s the problem with politicians. Even the slightest contact with them makes the clean feel unclean. The principled, unprincipled. The decent, well, you get it.
So huge gratitude to Liberal Democrat Voice for providing a neat little app which allows you to find out exactly how unpleasantly power crazed your local candidate is by analysing their record on 10 liberty-related legislative issues. Being the Liberal bloody Democrats, they aren’t measured on their (lack of) opposition to the 2006 Health Act of course. But it did, at least, allow me to get my local Tory in perspective and admire his very fine voting record against just about everything that should have been voted against.
Tags: bans, election campaign, Liberal Democrats
