Reply #24: Rifkind does come across as a decent guy [View All]

[Kicked in the Taco]

I'm somewhat torn in that, like (I suspect) a lot of people, I want an effective opposition but I don't actually want to risk a Tory government- so basically I want to have my cake and eat it. Having said that, perhaps with someone like Rifkind moving the Tories to the centre, new labour would actually be forced to move leftward to claim some distinct ideological ground- although I think Brown would have to take over for that to happen, its all got a little too messianic for Blair. If it didn't, the prospect of a Rifkind-led government would be a far less threatening weapon to try and scare wavering Labour voters into the polling stations with than that of a Howard government (which worked on me, for one).