{"id":378,"date":"2007-06-12T19:30:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/06\/12\/why-i-cant-vote-for-david-cameron-an-illustrated-guide\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T19:30:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T23:30:35","slug":"why-i-cant-vote-for-david-cameron-an-illustrated-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/06\/12\/why-i-cant-vote-for-david-cameron-an-illustrated-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Can’t Vote for David Cameron: An Illustrated Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

I, and many of my fellow countrymen, have been extraordinarily disappointed with Labour of late. Putting aside (work with me here) Blair’s unfathomable shadowing of Bush in Iraq, Labour’s domestic policy initiatives – National ID<\/a>, expanded CCTV surveillance,<\/a> anti-social behaviour<\/a> laws, among others – have me running into the arms of another party. You know, if there *were* another party to run to. The Lib Dems? One trick ponys. The Tories? Ha.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to the point of this post. Honestly, I’ve been fairly impressed (in a relative sense) with where David Cameron is trying to drag the Tories<\/a>, but I just can’t imagine myself actually casting a ballot for his party.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 Because this is what the Tories have always been,\u00c2\u00a0 and may always be, to me:<\/p>\n

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Go on, click it for the high res version and all of its detailed glory.\u00c2\u00a0 Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 To be clear, it’s horribly racist and ignorant and only (really really) funny if you paid attention<\/a> to the Tories in the 70s and 80s.\u00c2\u00a0 When I hear “Tory”, two things come to mind: Enoch “Rivers of Blood” Powell<\/a> and the sort of mindset that could create this map (sans humour).\u00c2\u00a0 To be fair, I’ve not lived in Britain for forever and a day,\u00c2\u00a0 and maybe the Tories are honestly and truly changing.\u00c2\u00a0 But I doubt it, and David Cameron & Co. will have to work pretty hard to overcome this map.<\/p>\n

(This post courtesy of my exploration of the many glorious maps<\/a> highlighted by Waldo’s link<\/a> to StrangeMaps.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I, and many of my fellow countrymen, have been extraordinarily disappointed with Labour of late. Putting aside (work with me here) Blair’s unfathomable shadowing of Bush in Iraq, Labour’s domestic policy initiatives – National ID, expanded CCTV surveillance, anti-social behaviour laws, among others – have me running into the arms of another party. You know, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t