HELP!!

I read that the terrible Tories might actually win not just control of Richmond council from the Lib's (who run a decent council at least and provide decent services - especially for those in real need), but ALSO the parliamentary constituency (also currently held by the Lib's with a small majority).

The Tories candidate in Richmond is the really rather transparent Zac Goldsmith (the multi-millionaire giant - recently involved in a non dom tax scandal a la Lord Ashcroft). He masquarades as the Tories green & environmental 'hero'.

Anyone know a right winger who has never done things that ultimately benefit them?
Sorry but I just can't believe the Tories, attempting to cover themselves in a fluffy and caring enviromental blanket so they look 'nice'. It's just not believable. They simply are not 'nice' and never will be.

Now do not get me wrong. I think (tragically) the 'New Labour' project has without a doubt failed. We can thank Mr. Blair for that. I'm a unapologetic 'old' Labour man. But I also have the political sense to remember the class (and industrial) destruction of the 80's and the sickening and rampant commercialism that Thatcher introduced, that which eventually changed Labour from Socialistic policies to the left/right confused bastard child it has sadly become.
So living where I do, I vote tactically to keep the plain cruelness of the right out. I am fortunate in being just over the river in the constituency of Twickenham, Vincent Cable therefore is my MP and he very obviously has a brain and appears to have some principles too so he will be getting my vote.
I do hope the voters of the constituency just across the bridge will think likewise...

On a slightly different note I'm also going to be going to see a lovely concert of Turnage, Glass and Henryk Gorecki for my upcoming birthday(the entrancingly beautiful & moving Symphony No. 3 'The Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs'). Lucky me! Cannot wait.

Actually the title of the Gorecki symphony could serve as an apt title for the recent state of politics in this dumbed down and over commercialised society...