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[hellison]

Who should i vote for? Of course this is entirely irrelevant because the only parties in the list I can actually vote for directly are Tories or the Green party. Not even sure if there is a Tory running in my constituency.
Instead I get to vote for parties who don't even really bother having polices because they know the vast majority of people will vote along the Tribal Lines regardless.
And of course because most of the people who would actually put some thought into voting won't bother because 'whats the point, the shinners/huns will get in here anyway, they always do'. As spectacularly displayed in our last farce of an election.

Who should I vote for?

Labour -15
Conservative -29
	Liberal Democrat 60
	UK Independence Party 13
	Green 42

You should vote: Liberal Democrat

The LibDems take a strong stand against tax cuts and a strong one in favour of public services: they would make long-term residential care for the elderly free across the UK, and scrap university tuition fees. They are in favour of a ban on smoking in public places, but would relax laws on cannabis. They propose to change vehicle taxation to be based on usage rather than ownership.

Take the test at Who Should You Vote For


Its kind of interesting that of the few results of this test seen so far, the Lib Dems seem to come out top.

edit! I decide to check who was actually running in my area. What a choice...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/353.stm
Mind you provided that oily turncoat oik Donaldson doesn't get back in, I could live with the UUP. Tho looking at the results I probably don't have much of a choice :p

Comments

[reuss.livejournal.com]

I came out heavily LibDem too, but that's no surprise for me really :)

[hellison.livejournal.com]

We have a kind of Lib Dem equivalent in the Alliance party, they're allied to Lib Dems in the same way the SDLP are linked to Labour, so Labour don't run here.
I might see if any of them run in my area, tho they're a bit pointless :p So far not many candidates have declared.

Of course the whole thing is kinda pointless since at some point the Assembly will crank itself up again for another few months, slap water charges on us and disintegrate again.

[malvino.livejournal.com]

Just about everyone I know got the same shape of graph thing, just with the lengths tweaked. If it's a cunning ploy to try and get everyone to vote lib-dem, it wouldn't surprise me :P

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Well it won't work on me :p Tho looking at the Alliance Party website, they actually have some policies, which is interesting.

The SDLP have put me off almost instantly by having a 'women's charter' on their front page, because of course things like childcare are seperate 'lady issues' and don't affect men and thus REAL policies at all.

[dreammonkey.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that too.
<--Cynic

[vashti.livejournal.com]

Possibly - although I'm political enough to have read the party policies list already, so I do know the Libdems agree with me on a lot of stuff. The result didn't surprise me.

We'll know if we wake up on May 6th and Charles Kennedy is PM, won't we?
*grol*

[mivvvv.livejournal.com]

I came out UKIP by a long way with Labour second and Liberal third. Shame really as only the tories want to bring fox hunting back. Wasn't biased toward lib-dem for me anyway.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

You would have to go and be weird :p

but I STILL LOVE YOU

[malvino.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it's some deep and subconscious thing to do with the strange ginger hue of former UKIP pinup Kilroy Silk :P