More Political Opportunism
Well, well, what a surprise. The Mail on Sunday has revealed that Helen Grant, who was recently selected to succeed Ann Widdecombe MP, was actually a Labour party member in Surrey until only two years ago.
This sudden switch in allegiance, which Ms Grant attributes to her enthusiasm for David Cameron’s new Conservative vision, will mean that she will almost undoubtedly become the next Member of Parliament for Maidstone and the Weald in Kent which has a projected majority of 14,000 votes.
Intriguingly, in a press release issued in response to the Mail on Sunday article by the Conservative party, Helen Grant says that:
I was seduced by Labour for about 5 minutes but quickly realised what a complete shower they really were … The only party I have only ever voted for is the Conservatives.
This should lead us to ask two questions: firstly, what makes her so sure she hasn’t been ‘seduced’ in a similar manner by David Cameron and the Conservative party, and secondly, why is it that someone who claims they have only ever voted Conservative would join the Labour party?
In an additional written remark published after her initial press release quoted above, Ms Grant says that:
At the request of Toni Letts, a Labour councillor in Croydon, I considered standing as a Labour council candidate for Croydon. I was ineligible to stand for council in Croydon and did not pursue this.
And had she been eligible to stand for Labour in Croyden, would she have chosen to stand? I think we can guess the answer to that one.
Helen Grant is a political careerist and opportunist just like other recent Conservative converts including Tony Lit and Rehman Chishti. She has not seen ‘the light’ or ‘the error of her ways’ which the usual bleating anonymous suspects and moronic commenters on ConservativeHome are claiming.
I rather liked and agreed with the comments made on ConservativeHome by Stephen Tolkinghorne. This one in particular was very insightful:
Perhaps Helen Grant’s selection is somewhat indicative of the way in which the Conservative party now doesn’t really have any firmly held beliefs, and is simply a policy and principle-free vehicle upon which a group of ambitious, self-interested individuals are merely trying to obtain power and the trappings that go along with it.
That about sums it up really. I’m not sure I can even be bothered to write any more on this issue. It really is extremely depressing.
