For much of my life, my salad analogy view of political parties has been
that Tory politicians are a bit like tomatoes. They are mostly ok, you get some
occasional bad ones, and sometimes a sweet juicy one that's really good.
Whereas Labour politicians are more like celery. Most of them aren't very good
when compared to tomatoes, but occasionally there's a half decent one that you
still wouldn't choose over a decent tomato, but you might if the tomatoes were
out of stock or had gone bad. But I don’t think my salad analogy can be proffered
these days, because when elections come around, we are really being asked to
choose between several varieties of celery.
This is the least friendly to the market, least conservative Conservative Party this country has ever had. They deserve to lose the election, not because Labour would be any better (they’ll be even worse), but because of how shamelessly the Conservatives have betrayed the principles for which they once stood. You may recall, in Dante's conceived foray through the circles of hell, he saw treachery as the lowest place of all. A party that has been so consistently treacherous towards its own values is the most dishonourable of all.
