Thursday, June 04, 2009

European Elections - Vote Conservative


Today the polls are open to vote for your Members of the European Parliament. You might not think that this is important but there are a few good reasons why it is worth turning up to your polling station and voting Conservative.

Tim Montgomerie on Conservative Home covers it well:-

  • Vote Conservative because it's the vote that Labour fears most.
  • Vote Conservative because of David Cameron's tough response to expenses-gate.
  • Vote Conservative because the Tory MEPs are set to leave the EPP and form the largest centre right grouping in the European Parliament opposed to ever closer union.
  • Vote Conservative because Tory MEPs will vote against the EU's
    ambitions to spend our way out of recession.
  • Vote Conservative because it's the surest way of getting a referendum on Lisbon.
  • Vote Conservative because David Cameron is the only UK party leader fit to be Prime Minister.


Voting for minor parties may well salve your conscience about the shenanigans in Westminster but Gordon Brown will shrug this off as only he can, as a blip. Whilst from a party point of view, I believe that Gordon Brown is the Conservative's greatest asset, as a British taxpayer, it is time that the message gets through to his Cabinet colleagues that it is time for him to go. This country cannot afford another year of hiatus with the global economic climate as it is.

Meanwhile, the LibDems have been pushing out leaflets with their usual barcharts. They are the foremost proponents of proportional representation, yet when they campaign in an election with exactly the kind of electoral system that they want, they campaign as if it was First Past the Post. They explain that only the LibDems and Conservatives can win in Sutton, Carshalton & Wallington. The only problem with this is that this is a London-wide election. You vote for a party's slate of candidates rather than individual names (unless they are independents). The ballot paper is two foot long. Messages like this only go to confuse people further.



POLLS CLOSE AT 10pm

3 comments:

Cllr David Pickles said...

Vote Conservative because of "David Cameron's tough response to expenses-gate"?

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Has he had the guts to directly sack any one of his miscreants? NO. Just like Brown and Clegg haven't either. The three "main parties" haven't got a spine between the lot of them.

Cllr David Pickles said...

.........well now the cat is well and truly out of the bag Paul. More tory lies on the EU referendum. Cameron has fluffed it and Ken Clarke has laid bare the deceit of the "tory" party.

What a laugh.

Colin said...

Bit like the flexible spine demonstrated by you Mr Pickles what with all that flip flopping between parties...!