On May 6th I’ll be voting for my incumbent MP, because he has been consistently hard-working within the constituency since he was elected in 2005; because if his party wins, he would be a constructive and commercially experienced treasury minister; because he was untainted by the expenses fiasco and because he is manifestly the best candidate in this election to represent our constituency.
Phillip Dunne is a Tory and I am glad to give him my support.
I am less glad to be promoting the interest and influence of the Murdoch family, and the presence of a Murdoch placeman in a Tory-held No.10.
Most conservative MPs would deny that the electorate cares much about this aspect of a potential Tory government – which underestimates the discerning, as yet uncommitted voter, for the efficacy of the Tory Murdoch-hugging strategy is proving highly questionable now that the days of winning elections in partnership with the Sun newspaper are long past; indeed the whole Murdoch/Tory love-in threatens to neuter the party’s earlier electoral strength
Perhaps old Rupert Rumplechops has been playing a double-bluff when he’s claimed to favour Brown (a most implausible coupling), aware that overt Murdoch support might jeopardise the Tories’ chance of victory.
The old boy is by no means too vain to be that subtle.

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