Vote smart. posted by Richard Seymour

Never mind Cohen & Aaronovitch, the ugly sisters of British opinion journalism. Never mind that silly bat Polly Toynbee and her increasingly shrill pleas to vote Labour for the workers, for the mothers, for the kids (just not the Iraqi kids). Pay attention to what the smartest guy in the world says :

I urge everyone to vote in the election tomorrow only for MPs who voted against the war in Iraq.
Prof Stephen Hawking
Cambridge University

I think that's probably heavily edited down. I'm sure he provided some graphs, explored some mysteries of cosmogyny and cosmology, provided scholastic appendices and so on - but you get the message. What's the problem with these geniuses, anyway? They're always trouble-makers. Einstein was a socialist, Oscar Wilde was a socialist, Stephen Fry is a big fat leftie...