I’m not a floating voter – I’m drowning | Letter

  • 7/2/2024
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I envy the relative certainty of your floating voters (We’re the floating voters who will decide this election. With a week to go, this is what we think, 28 June). I am more drowning than floating. Why? I support the Greens on wealth tax and climate, and the Liberal Democrats on Europe and proportional representation. And I want to deliver a bloody nose to the Tories for turning my country into a divided, irrelevant offshore klepto-chumocracy. Last week, I attended hustings in my hitherto safe Tory constituency, now tipped as a probable Labour gain. At the hustings, Reform ruled itself out for obvious reasons, while the Green candidate was embarrassingly inept. The Lib Dem spoke well despite his vote already being squeezed. The Labour man, a personable young teacher, also spoke well, only to spoil matters by sending us a leaflet calling Liz Truss’s performance “wreckless”. By far the most impressive was our widely respected “one nation”, constituency-nurturing Tory, who was one of the first to disown Boris Johnson. Fleetingly, it crossed my mind that, given forecasts and increasing electoral volatility, he could be a positive factor in the next Tory leadership election, which could be hugely important should Labour discover that just not being the Tories will not guarantee it a second term. Can somebody throw me a lifebelt? Warwick Hillman London

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