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03/05/10 :"In Reading, if you want reform vote Labour!":
Reading West is a Labour seat, one of those the Tories say they have to win if they are to form a Government. Reading East, which the Tories won last time with a majority of just 475, is a seat they need to hold if they are to form a Government.
And Labour candidates Naz Sarkar and Anneliese Dodds quote Nick Clegg about what that means. "There is a gulf of values between myself and David Cameron," Mr Clegg said in Saturday's Guardian. "They have no progressive reform agenda at all - only an unbearable sense of entitlement that it's just their time to govern. Cameron has set his face against any profound reform of the political system. The Conservative Party is now the party of entrenched vested interests of politics."
"All the evidence," says Mr Sarkar, "is that a Conservative victory on Thursday would not be a vote for change, in fact it would be a vote to put in office a party that has not really changed itself, and does not want to see change in our country. It would be a giant step backwards which would undo and put into reverse many of the very real gains of the last dozen years."
And Anneliese Dodds adds: "This is a watershed election, and voters in Reading who don't want to see a Conservative Government - which is most voters in both Reading East and Reading West - only need to look at the figures to know that the only way they can stop that is by voting Labour. The Guardian itself, while supporting the Liberal Democrats, urges voters in Labour-Conservative marginals to vote Labour so as not to 'let in an anti-reform Tory Party' and that applies to both the Reading constituencies. In 2005 enough people voted LibDem in Reading East to let the Tories in. I hope they don't make the same mistake this time."
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