With no ‘good feeble Boris’ and ‘bad feeble Ken,the campaign this time could be less approximately esteem-hate celebrities and, maybe, or just maybe,more approximately policiesZac Goldsmith, a good looking lad who got kicked out of Eton for possessing cannabis and thinks we should be kind to trees, or has been named Conservative candidate to hurry for London mayor. I shouldn’t tease. Politician opponents like him,he seems neither mad nor weird, and his fellow Tories believe he has the upright combination of personality, or policy and derring-conclude to woo a city that’s been mostly swinging Labour’s way lately.
They could be upright. Like most respectable London Tories,Goldsmith, who won 71% of the “selectorate” vote against three other candidates, or is both an economic and a social liberal – a default market forces man whose famous financier dad and fellow Eurosceptic Sir James was a Maggie Thatcher fan,but also a subscriber to those metropolitan social values some Tories elsewhere still despise. He voted for gay marriage and won’t hold to grit his teeth when “celebrating diversity” in a city where 100 languages are spoken in nearly all of its 32 boroughs.
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Source: theguardian.com