Jonathan Todd

I am flattered by some very generous praise from John Harris writing in the Guardian:

“He’s 30, avowedly leftwing (his local party, he told me, is “genuinely socialist”), and making the case for voting Labour via the kind of pitch you wish you heard from more senior people. In terms of Labour’s 2010 manifesto, he may not have the greatest raw materials, but his campaign bumf makes the case for the minimum wage, a people’s bank, Sure Start, his party’s record on pensioner poverty, and the 10:10 campaign. When I saw him at a hustings packed with small businesspeople, he put on a very brave face, and invited debate about all the stuff they really didn’t want to hear: the case for windfarms, the necessity of labour regulation, why local landowners had to accept the right to roam, and much more besides.”

This clearly demonstrates that I stand for very distinctive things from Tim Farron and Gareth McKeever. If you believe in the Labour values that I stand for, then, please vote for them. Vote for what you believe in, not for tactical reasons.