Friendslist electioniser

[strange_complex]

This only works if people are prepared to tell a stranger's data-collection gizmo how they intend to vote at the election - but if you're happy enough to do that, it's fun to see how your friends are lining up.


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The spread there so far is no particular surprise to me - but it could do with more data! Apparently, the graphs get updated periodically, so you can still change how mine looks by submitting your voting intentions.

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Comments

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

That certainly sounds good, and I hope we get to see them exert some influence in that direction. They remain bit of an unknown quantity in some ways, though. I can't help but feel that if they won an election, they'd run around and panic in a "shit, what do we do now?!?" sort of a way.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

That's certainly possible - but my disenchantment with the other two parties is such that I still think giving the LibDems a chance is preferable to letting the other two continue making the unholy mess of things that they have already proven themselves capable of.

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

Certainly a lot of people are starting to think that way. My own particular inclination is still towards Labour, as I do feel they're much more fair, just and generally decent than the Conservatives, but they've done nothing but waste opportunities for the last thirteen years and have been disappointing, to say the least. I'd feel far happier if they went back to their core values and stopped being ashamed of the word "socialist".

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

My own particular inclination is still towards Labour, as I do feel they're much more fair, just and generally decent than the Conservatives

Yes, in theory Labour are certainly far preferable, but in practice they don't seem much better. Of course, a major issue for me is the fact that this is a party which has implemented massive cuts to Higher Education (http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/mar/18/university-budgets-slashed), led mainly (http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/sep/15/mandelson-university-funding-review) by a minister with a distinctly chequered history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mandelson#First_resignation) who I don't think should be in a position of power at all - and as a result of which my job and my subject are under threat. I simply cannot support a party which has done that, either directly via a vote in their favour or indirectly via a vote against their rivals.

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

I know where you're coming from. It's shameful that a Labour government has done this.

Personally I'm angry that they failed to sort out the mess on the railways as well.

[matgb]

Doubt it, not in the current front bench, anyway.

But if the LDs do win an overall majority, then a lot of the MPs will be candidates thinking they're running to fly the flag, some of whom won't have even taken time off work to campaign.

It'll be an interesting Parliament, that's for sure; some of the candidates in seats winnable in the current opinion polls are in their late 60s.

But fully costed manifesto, full prgoram for Govt, a very detailed set of policies going back years; joys of a democratic party, there's an expert in everything within the membership. Doesn't mean they're actually sane, because, y'know, Lib Dem member.

Was going to reply to one of your earlier points, but too long, so apologies for double post.