If you hate Jeremy Corbyn, you may still need to vote Labour. Ditto, if you can’t stand Jo Swinson.
Without tactical voting on a massive scale, we’re going to lose. It will then be game over for a People’s Vote and the chance to stop Brexit.
We are staring at a tragedy of monumental proportions. Most people will vote for pro-referendum parties on Thursday. But Boris Johnson is heading for a comfortable majority in Parliament, because our vote is split between too many parties.
Unless, that is, people vote tactically – and back the candidates with the best chance of beating the Tories. We’ll then get a hung parliament and it will be game on for a People’s Vote.
This is not a time to be precious or tribal. This is an emergency.
We’ve called on the parties to look to the national interest. Grassroots groups have urged the Lib Dems to back Labour in the Prime Minister’s seat to bring him down. They have appealed to Labour to support the Lib Dems in Dominic Raab’s constituency to take him out.
But the parties are not listening. So now the people have got to take power into their own hands.
Remember when Princess Leia was captured by Darth Vader in Star Wars? She sent out a hologram message saying: “Help me Obi Wan Kenobe, you are my only hope.”
Tactical voting is now our Obi Wan Kenobe. It’s our only hope.
Some pro-Europeans will say they can’t vote Lib Dem because of tuition fees, austerity or whatever. Others will say they can’t vote Labour because of Corbyn’s mushy Brexit policy, his left-wing views or whatever.
But Swinson hasn’t got a snowball’s chance of winning. And the best Corbyn can hope for is a hung parliament.
Brexit is for life. Corbyn, at most, is for Christmas.
So vote tactically on Thursday. And if that means holding your nose and voting for a party you don’t really like, so be it.
