This is the first election in my life in which I shall vote Conservative. I voted Labour in the last local elections as a sort of last fling at the ballot box. But not this time. This time I’m going to go all the way with Theresa May.
Like a lot of Eurosceptic Labour voters, I was drawn to May by her declaration that Brexit would mean Brexit. But Brexit has hardly come up in this campaign, and while the PM is said to have floundered, Labour has supposedly surged. Nevertheless, for me, and countless voters like me, the issues might have changed but the dynamic hasn’t. I don’t like Labour anymore. I do like Theresa May.
This is the hardest thing to write. You see, I was born Labour and when you’re born Labour you’re supposed to bloody stay that way. Oh, I’ve been moving to the right for a long time, but that’s philosophy not party.
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