questions for my candidates

[libellum]

I've just sent the following email to all my candidates except Labour, Tory and UKIP (because I am not considering voting for them) through this handy website.

Comments

[friend_of_tofu]

TUSC has a rather large overlap with No To EU. I'm highly skeptical of their protectionist tendncies, and the civil liberties implicatins, of anti-EU policies, so I'd be v interested to hear about their responses on those points if you go.

[libellum]

Interesting. The only thing in their manifesto that seems to relate to what you're saying is this item

[friend_of_tofu]

My aim is to vote for the person most likely to get Lammy out

Fair enough - not a million miles away from my approach to Raynsford - but in Tottenham, I'm pretty much certain that's not going to be TUSC! Do let me know ow it goes, though.

(Pragmatically, I think being anti-American and also anti-EU is somewhat unworkable, as isolationism is not really very splendid at all. While there's plenty of EU policy & law I don't agree with, I regard the immediate alternative as substantially worse, and have very little time for raving anti-EU nutters.)

[libellum]

Yeah, I'm not sure it's going to be TUSC either but in the lack of a strong Lib Dem campaign I fear the left vote is going to be hopelessly split anyway...

Are you saying TUSC are anti-American or I am? I'm a bit confused about where that came from!

[friend_of_tofu]

I was referring to your quote from tusc's manifesto, and more generally.

Did you see Monbiot's article today about why radical politics are more acceptable in Wales. Amusing coincidence, as A & I were trying to think of good constituencies for tusc and we did speculate about Merthyr...