"Vote Green" says Monbiot

Voting LibDem sends a mixed message to the government says George Monbiot in his Guardian column today.

By choosing the Lib Dems, you are sending an equivocal signal. Are you voting for them because you think Blair is too rightwing, or because you fear old Labour might resurface? Are you choosing them because you are a liberal Tory who detests Howard, or is it because you can't make up your mind, and they represent the middle position? There are, in other words, too many reasons for voting Lib Dem. Your voice is lost in the noise of conflicting intentions, and your decision becomes unintelligible. Whoever takes power after the next election cannot be sure why the votes fell the way they did.

If, on the other hand, you were to vote Green ... you would send an unequivocal signal about the kind of politics you are rejecting and the kind of politics you are embracing.