Lord Tebbit says"Don't vote Tory".

[Gromit]

Lord Tebbit is risking expulsion from the Conservatives after urging voters not to back the party in next month's European elections.

The call from a senior party grandee is an extraordinary challenge to David Cameron's authority in the run-up to the June 4 poll.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-118071 1/Lord-Tebbit-defies-Tories-tell-voters-Dont-v ote-ANY-party-European-elections.html

Are there any Tory voters out there who would risk handing an unexpected victory to Labour? or is he a traitor to the party?

[Lonnie]

I believe that what he said, was 'don't vote for any of the major parties', obviously that includes the Tories, and I guess, Sien Fein.

So, that being the case, and I don't vote for the Tories, which is where my vote was going, it'll have to be either an independant, or Ukip.

[rov1200]

I think he is asserting that people should vote UKIP. He cannot say this directly as he knows Cameron would boot him out of the Tory party. Didn't he once during John Major's regime instruct voters to vote Labour?

[Whoever]

I'll make up my own mind. Why should I listen to any politician these days? Most of them haven't done anything recently to make me think that when they open their mouths they offer much wise guidance.

[anotheoldgit]

Tut, Tut Gromit, you of all people using a Daily Mail link, have you become converted?

What I did find interesting though was this quote from Lord Tebbit,

Lord Tebbit did say that he would urge the public not to support the 'socialist' British National Party, which he described as 'Labour with racism'.

Why did he attach the word 'socialist' to the BNP?

Should we now begin to call Socialists, 'Nazis'? How interesting.

[Gromit]

AOG, Tebbit has long campaigned to have thew BNP rebranded as a left wing part. There was his Daily Telegraph letter...

Left-wing BNP

Sir - It is of some comfort that the Labour Party at least, even if not yet the Tories, has woken up to the threat posed by the BNP, because it has ceased to understand or listen to its own supporters when they express their concerns about multiculturalism, the levels of immigration and lack of integration that are affecting our great cities.

However, it remains of concern that even The Daily Telegraph (Comment, April 18) persists in so misunderstanding the BNP as to describe it as "an extreme Right-wing party". I have carefully re-read the BNP manifesto of 2005 and am unable to find evidence of Right-wing tendencies.

On the other hand, there is plenty of anti-capitalism, opposition to free trade, commitments to "use all non-destructive means to reduce income inequality", to institute worker ownership, to favour workers' co-operatives, to return parts of the railways to state ownership, to nationalise the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and to withdraw from Nato. That sounds pretty Left-wing to me.

Certainly the BNP poses as a patriotic party opposed to multiculturalism, and it has racist overtones, but there is no lack of patriotic Left-wing regimes; opposition to multiculturalism is now mainstream and racialism was not unknown even in the Soviet Union.
So what is "extreme Right-wing" about the BNP?

Lord Tebbit, London SW1

[anotheoldgit]

Very enlightening, thanks for that Gromit, Lord Tebbit has a very good case, but I don't think the 'Loony Left' will see it that way.

'Socialist Workers Party', arm in arm with BNP???????

[DanAB]

i was planning to vote in the european elections, but i see no real point. and to be honest i would rather vote for the Swedish Pirate Party as they have agendas which i support.

[mike1222]

I just cannot bring myself to vote for any of these so-called politicians because they are ALL liars and I find it very hard to believe that the people of this country ,in the light of recent revelations, are so thick that they will actually go and vote for these parasites.
Norman Tebbitt is probably right when he says that they need teaching a lesson.