Politics

So, I am quite interested in politics. I have even considered it as a career on many occasions, and probably will continue to do for a long time.

I consider myself a Conservative, but a slightly unusual one. I do so because I believe in the general ideas behind the party (I genuinely get annoyed when people insists on supporting something simply because of the man at the top) , lower taxes, less bureaucracy, smaller government and just generally leaving people alone. This especially worries me. I do have one grievance though, I think Grammar schools are amazing. I do not care what anyone else thinks, I would not be here without them.

So onto the long rambling points of the post.

1, Labour are now polling third, after even the Lib Dems!

2, Something that makes no sense to me...

The campaign slogan for the election Labour will loose on Thursday(?) is

"Do you want a Tory con man or a Dunwoody?"

Now this confuses me. I have read in the papers and have seen many pictures that the whole labour campaign has been about the Tory candidate coming from a well off family, hence he has inherited most of his good fortune. So the argument is that if he were not born into the family, he would not even be considering running for the position.

I am curious, how is this different than a hereditary passing of a seat in parliament from Mother to Daughter? With the only reason she is being put forward is that she was born into the correct family.......