I see Youtube now has a Tory party film plastered all over it entitled 'Labour: a threat to our national security'
I had an email from the Conservatives and I'm seeing stuff from them on Facebook along the same lines.
Although I'm a Labour member, I tend to strongly take the view that most people on all sides are doing the best they can for the country consistent with their own understanding of the world, and for that reason I've often defended the Conservatives when people accuse them of dishonesty/bad intentions/etc. But this sort of thing is starting to make me feel *
really* disgusted with the Conservatives. Coming just 5 months after an election campaign in which senior Conservatives repeatedly made claims about the economy and about the impact of the SNP on politics which they must surely have known not only amounted to scaremongering but were at best of highly dubious accuracy, accusations of 'a threat to national security' just make me think, is there nothing too low for the Conservatives to stoop to?
I haven't seen the youtube video, but the stuff I've been getting on facebook is full of quotes from Corbyn that sound bad by themselves but have clearly been taken out of context and have clearly been designed to present him in a misleading light.
I didn't vote for Corbyn, because there are too many policy areas in which I'm somewhat unhappy with Corbyn's approach. Like
DarloRich, I voted for Andy Burnham. But frankly, what I'm seeing from the Conservatives at the moment is starting to make me wish I
had voted for Corbyn, and it's making me even more determined to do everything I can to campaign to get the Tories out of power.