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Date: 06 May 2010 19:01:28
but not without some serious misgivings. Someone on Twitter said that they voted out of a sense of "stern daughter of the voice of God" duty*, and that is it exactly. I can still remember my first General Election, voting in 1997 with a sense of joy and hope.
This time, not so much. I voted out of a need to keep "Them" out, and because I cannot imagine not voting. I voted because if the Tories get in, it will be the poor that suffer disproportionately, and, as Neil Kinnock said in 1983, "If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday – I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old…"
David Cameron is holding up Hammersmith and Fulham council as a 'model' of compassionate conservatism. Read it and weep.
Weep for the desperate, and the lonely, and the frightened. Weep for the ill, and those without hope, or education. Because they will bear the burden of a Tory government which will cut taxes for the most fortunate and pile burdens on those least able to bear them.
Weep for those who will carry the cost of the inheritance tax cut, because an increase in VAT hits the poorest hardest. Weep for the confused, and the elderly, and the ignorant.
And the polls close in two hours, so now dry your eyes and go and vote.
And yes, I am aware that I voted Conservative as my second choice for Mayor of Newham, but that was because none of the alternatives were viable candidates.
*thank you, Londiniensis