Andrew Lloyd Webber: Phantom of the Opera writer mocked after issuing a warning about Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon
He weighed in on the General Election, but not everybody welcomed his opinions
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Your support makes all the difference.Andrew Lloyd Webber has weighed in on the General Election, urging people to vote Conservative.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday, the Cats composer issued a passionate plea against voting for Labour or the Scottish National Party, believing that voters are going to elect an unsuitable government.
Lloyd Webber, who is a Conservative member of the House of Lords, argued that the conversation around the election had been too inward looking, and that Labour and the SNP are too focused on domestic issues to govern properly.
"If the debates are anything to go by, the British electorate is being kept in the dark, and is blissfully unaware of what’s going on in the real outside world where I live and work," Lloyd Webber argued.
"I fear that this, exacerbated by a dose of election fatigue, will cause the British people to unwittingly vote for a government that will be unequipped to navigate Britain through the dangerous international waters ahead."
The article - which was published with the headline "Britain will be run down, weakened and broken up by Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon" - also asserted that Britain is preoccupied by class issues.
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Lloyd Webber wrote: "we British are as obsessed with class as ever. And it got me thinking. Is this the real root of Britain’s sleepwalking? Is the real reason why the Conservatives are not way ahead in the polls – because so many of us want to give the toff in the Bullingdon Club photo a bloody nose?"
However, he came in for criticism with some people arguing that he was bound to be biased as a Conservative peer. Others implied that Lloyd Webber's opinion shouldn't be taken seriously as he's best-known for writing musicals.
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