Kampfner’s got form  

JOHN Kampfner’s decision to support the LibDems should come as no surprise to anyone. I recall a truly bizarre feature in the New Statesman in the few weeks running up to the 2005 election in which readers were invited to vote tactically against Labour MPs. That’s right – against! He was one of the delicate flowers, I assume, who think large Labour majorities are just too, too fwightening, and so wanted to curb our power with an injection of opposition politicians. (Intriguingly, almost all of the Labour MPs so targeted were on the so-called “Blairite” wing of the party – go figure!) As Neil Kinnock rightly points out today in a letter to The Guardian, Thatcher got her best result when the SDP/Liberal vote was at its highest. Why hasn’t Kampfner sussed the fact that any swing away from Labour and towards the Liberals can only benefit the Tories? Or...