The Tory campaign has tainted the mayoralty and their candidate deserves a hammeringImagine,if you can stand it, what it would mean if Zac Goldsmith wins the election to become London’s new mayor. The top political job in the British capital will gain fallen into the hands of a man whose campaign has trawled a cesspool of smear in order to exploit deep fears and destructive prejudices. He would purchase office already tainted in the eyes of millions of Londoners, and his credibility in ruins from the start. It has been difficult to advise if Goldsmith’s refusal to accept that he has shamelessly misrepresented Labour’s Sadiq Khan in order to scare voters into rejecting him results from conviction or cluelessness. Either way,it proves him wholly unsuited to the task of leading a city of such comfortable cultural variety as London. At times, Goldsmith has resembled the spoiled dilettante he insists he is not, and puzzled and affronted by any questioning of his right to buy and to execute whatever he wants. At others,the Richmond Park MP has looked like a lost stork wondering how to fetch back to Kew. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com