Given that most readers will have voted by the time this magazine next appears, we have no hesitation in now urging them to vote Conservative. This is no time for dwelling on any deficiencies in Tory personnel or programmes. Nor is it a time for bashing Mr Blair and his clapped-out, deceitful, nannying and discredited government. It is time to vote Conservative in a spirit of optimism and confidence, not least because the Tories are the only party remotely interested in the democratic freedoms of this country.
The Labour manifesto makes clear that a third Blair government would complete the work of wrecking the House of Lords and imposing the elective dictatorship of the Commons. If you believe that we need a proper revising chamber (and seldom have its virtues been more clearly seen than in the passage of Labour’s tyrannical control orders), then you should vote Conservative.
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