I have had a number of shocked emails from old friends on the left following my previous post here, which many saw as an endorsement of the Liberal Democrats. In fact, I remain one of the great undecided.
This weekend I witnessed some good comrades embracing the party of the workers. Nick Cohen devoted his column in the Observer to the thesis (adapting Chesterton) that “when people stop believing in Labour they don’t believe in nothing – they believe in anything”. Meanwhile, Norman Geras of normblog has published the five reasons he will be voting Labour.
There is much soul-searching out there in liberal Britain.
The Observer’s brilliant but tortured endorsement of the Lib Dems came very close to being an argument for voting Labour. Will Hutton is, in essence, arguing for a Labour government with Nick Clegg as Prime Minister.
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