Labour Candidate rejects tactical voting and Con-Lib Dem deal
Following the establishment of a coalition government between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, Jonathan Todd, Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Westmorland and Lonsdale at the General Election, has appealed to voters to never again vote for the Liberal Democrats for tactical reasons.
Mr Todd said:
“The Liberal Democrats have gone to great lengths in Westmorland and Lonsdale to try to convince voters to not vote Labour, as they claim that to do so would only make it more likely that we’d get a Tory MP. They even colluded with my predecessor from 2005, John Reardon; a man so politically promiscuous that he is now a member of the Green Party.
“They printed and distributed a letter from Reardon, which encouraged voters to not vote Labour for tactical reasons. This letter certainly confused people, as many subsequently enquired whether Labour still intended to field a candidate. It reflects badly on the Liberal Democrats that they should soil the democratic process in this way, but it also shows their absolute determination to make people believe that voting Liberal Democrat is the only way to stop the Tories.
“After all the lengths that they have gone to, to try to convince people that they are the only party that can stop the Tories, it must be a kick in the teeth to these same people that the Liberal Democrats have now entered into a coalition government with the Conservatives.
“It seems that the “Tories for Tim” – the campaign spawned by another Liberal Democrat sponsored letter from Conservative supporter George Crossman, which urged voters to support Tim Farron – had it right all along: voting for Farron has helped the Tories and enabled David Cameron to form a government.
“Now that the dust has settled on all of the cant of tactical voting and the horse trading that has placed Liberal Democrat bottoms on the smooth leather of Ministerial cars, at the expense of propping up Cameron in Number 10, I hope that voters resolve to never again vote tactically and to vote, instead, for what they really believe in. Voting for what you believe in is never a wasted vote.”
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