Nicely put

None of the parties currently asking for our votes offers the combination of policy and approach that satisfies me; I imagine most people feel the same. And yet we have to make a decision: whether to vote, and if so, for whom. Phil Walker, over at The Melangerie, puts it very well.

I can recall some years ago, when there was major disruption on the railway network, having to get from York where I had been on a visit, back home to Leicester. Trains were cancelled left, right and centre, and there was basically no way of me making what was usually a very straightforward journey on a direct train. I couldn't get to my destination by a direct route, so I started taking trains which were headed in the right direction. I got home many hours later, but I got there.

The Tories aren't flagging up my destination on their schedule. They're not exactly aimed straight at where I would like us to go. They certainly wouldn't go far enough. But since this is the train headed in most nearly the right direction, I shall take it.

Couldn't have put it better myself.