Good day yesterday. Lunch with parents and family in Old Malden interspersed with some church. Quite tired today at the end of the ‘pre’ ‘pre’ election and the start of the ‘pre’ election on Tuesday. Also good to see more daylight in the evenings, makes knocking on doors a little bit easier.
Tomorrow will be spent catching up with paperwork and updating the campaign diary ready for meeting on Wednesday of all ward Chairman.
Borough wide newspaper arrived Thursday and that and targeted letters going out this week before election gets called next week (4th or 5th). Then we start again. Good teams in place all over Borough now, just a small job to start plugging a few gaps where people are away for Easter.
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So Kevin, you have much to say about a lot of things especially if it presents an opportunity to be critical of either Kingston's Lib-Dem MP or the present Government.
How about having an open debate with the other candidates so that the public can have a real chance to listen to your views on matters of concern to all of us?
More than happy. There had been a debate planned for the University but Ed Davey backed down. I gather it has been rescheduled for 18th April.
Kevin, without answering with the consideration of hindsight, if you been an MP in this Parliamentary session, would you have agreed with the Conservative party and supported the war in Iraq?
I believe that the removal of Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do. I believe that the Middle East has become a safer place because of his removal. I do not mean safer by the removal of his threat to the Middle East but that Middle Eastern states have now seen that the force of will of the West can be bought to bear to bring about peace. This is evidenced by the peaceful decision to withdraw Syrian troops from the Lebanon.
However, I believe Blair misled Parliament over the reasons for going to war and his "dodgy dossier" was a mistake. Whilst all of us, including MP's, believed he was being open he was in fact spinning the threat to provide a case for going to war.
But would you have supported the war on the grounds of there being weapons of mass destruction, rather than the removal of Saddam Hussein?
I would have supported the war because of Saddam Husseins record of genocide as well as the fact we were told that there were weapons of mass destruction.
I do not think you can draw conclusions that if a country has WMD you would go to war, or by extension you would be suggesting that we invade the USA!! Going to war at any time is for range of reasons, two of which were key for me in Iraq; WMD and Saddam's human rights treatment of his own people.
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