Peggy Toynbee
For those who don’t know, Guardian columnist and New Labour apologist Polly Toynbee has been offering to send out nose-pegs to people who have been taken in by the “Tories will get in by the back-door” rubbish that she and everyone else is spouting. The idea behind the pointless gesture being that you wear it when voting for war-mongering Blair, to protest in a symbolic way whilst condoning a war criminal with your vote. This nonsense was beginning to get my goat, so I done this:
Dear Ms Toynbee,
I wonder if you could send me a nose peg. I intend to use it when I vote Conservative in my Con/Lab marginal.
Obviously I cannot vote for my current Labour MP (who voted for the war) as it could only be seen as an endorsement of the probable war-criminal, Blair, and a party that has failed to dump him. The foul stench of such an action would permeate my senses even if I emptied a whole can of Febreeze up either nostril and then sealed them up with cement.
My alternative is to vote in a way that favours the largest anti-war party, the Liberal Democrats. In my constituency this can only be done by voting tory, in the slim hope of a hung parliament (and in the knowledge that the risk of a conservative victory is negligible). Obviously, this poses problems, due to extremely distasteful nature of the tory campaign which no liberal would want to encourage. That’s where the nose-peg comes in. With one of your pegs, I hope to make clear that my vote for the Conservatives is tactical, and should not be interpreted as an endorsement of their disgusting campaign or potentially damaging policies.
A symbolic gesture of the kind you propose would be insultingly meaningless to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have lost friends and relatives as a result of Bush and Blair’s unnecessary war. It might, however, be just the thing for the Lib Dem supporter who wants to vote against Labour without condoning the tories.
Therefore I ask that the peg be sent to the address below.
Yours Sincerely,
Underblog
Underblog’s house,
Underblog’s street,
Underblog’s marginal constituency
UK