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aranel04

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Jun 03, 2009 16:55

I still don't know who to vote for. I'm stuck between the Greens and the Lib Dems. I would offer to let anyone try to talk me into or out of voting for either of them, but I know that everyone will just tell me the Lib Dems are very sensible and the Greens are a load of hippies. Which I know. But the problem is that I agree with them on an awful ( Read more... )

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softfruit June 3 2009, 18:51:07 UTC

Normally I'd say that, given the result in London last time (you are in London... aren't you? I'm going to assume you are...) the chances are that the Greens will get 1 seat and the Lib Dems will get either 1 or 2 seats, so of the two choices the Lib Dem vote is more likely to increase the total number of (Green+LibDem) elected for the London euro-constituency. The Libs took one seat and were the runners-up last time, about 2000 votes from taking a second seat, while the Greens' first seat looks fairly safe and a second seat looks fairly unobtainable. In as much as we can guess anyone's voting intentions at the moment.

I'm not convinced Labour have stood for any of the things they like to say they stand for at any time since I learned to do joined-up writing, but I've lived all my life in Labour rotten boroughs so I do have a particular take on the Labour Party.

aranel04 June 4 2009, 10:03:18 UTC

No, I'm afraid I'm in Bucks, which I'm fairly sure belongs to the South East. We've also got counsel elections here, but I think it's just the three main parties standing, and I think the Tories have been in power here for...120 years? The Lib Dems are the only group to ever get noticed otherwise.

The Lib Dem website is broken, helpfully.

aranel04 June 8 2009, 09:42:45 UTC

I voted Green in the end. I don't think it made a hell of a lot of difference considering neither party had much of a chance of getting more seats due to the incredibly powerful Tory/UKIP base round here. I wish I'd been able to vote in Manchester still, as 5000 more Green votes would've spared ol' Nick his tiresome new responsibilities as a representative of our great nation. I might have been able to kick some of my college friends too. I'm feeling awfully activisty.

Did you actually speak to Nick Griffin, or vice versa? How does he come across when he's not being, to steal a quote off a friend of a friend, 'to public speaking what spam is to food'?