[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Hugh

I have a friend standing in our Constituency, and I’ve been active Conservative since the early 80’s (constituency officer, area officer, National YC officer, stood at both council and constituency level, worked in very many National and By-Elections, been a researcher for Heseltine and others), but I can’t vote Conservative in this election, because of language like that.

I served and actively worked against the Communist menace, and the Tory party should be elected in what it can do to benefit the country, not by using ‘reds under the bed" smear tactics.

I think you've got this the wrong way round. It's (my argument) not to do with Conservative smear tactics - they're all as bad as each other in that respect; it's the self evident facts around Labour on which my argument stands.