The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

I don't know how many of you read the Evening Standard or how many of you read it today. If you did, you'll be aware of the HILARIOUS statement made by Simon Hughes against the Labour Government. To be honest, I didn't know whether to be angry or impressed at how low the Lib-Dems could stoop so easily.

Being a person who loves making a song and dance about certain things, I naturally wrote an email to the editor of the newspaper:

Dear Mr. Greig,

After reading today's Evening Standard, I was left absolutely staggered at the quote mentioned by Simon Hughes where he mentions that Labour's decision to not support the voting reform is "Staggering hypocrisy". Mr. Hughes has obviously forgotten the contents of the manifesto presented by the Liberal Democrats prior to the election. I say this because once 'clegg-mania' swept the nation, I decided to read the Lib-Dem manifesto, even though I have always planned to vote Labour, in order to see what all the fuss over the new 'Golden Boy' of politics was about. Even though this was a while back, I still remember various details of what their manifesto mentioned and was unsurprisingly appalled when I heard that a Con-Dem Government was going to be formed, due to the large differences between the two parties. Was the Lib Dem manifesto not warning people to NOT vote Tory because they would increase the VAT? Was that not one of the points that Nick Clegg repeated over and over again?

It's ridiculous! I'm still recovering from that hypocrisy and was somewhat soothed by the ironic and idiotic lemming-like image presented by the Lib-Dems when they began attempting to explain to voters and members of the party that the VAT rise was for the better. Make your mind up!

Whatever little respect I had for the Liberal Democrats after that immediately diminished after reading the article you published. I don't understand how Simon Hughes has the face to call Labour hypocrites after all of the things which the party that he co-leads has done in order to gain a minimal amount of power. In my eyes, this is a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black. If he thinks that Labour is showing hypocrisy, he's obviously lacks knowledge of what his party USED to stand for.

Many thanks,

Andrea Campos-Vigouroux