Weighing Things Up

[poliphilo]

This is the Tunbridge Wells constituency. In 2010 the Conservatives took 56% of the vote. It's a safe seat for them and always has been. Opposition is provided by the Lib Dems who took 25% last time round. Labour doesn't have the ghost of a chance.

So my vote isn't going to change anything. It'll be nothing but a protest vote.  And so I think I might as well go with what I really believe- and vote Green. 

Comments

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

I swore I'd never vote tactically again after seeing the Libdems' participation in the destruction of our welfare state... but I'm having to face up to the fact that I do need to hold my nose and vote Libdem again if I don't want the Tories in here. A vote for the (slightly) lesser weevil.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I suppose the Lib Dems might join a coalition of the left this time.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Green, SNP, and Plaid Cymru? It does seem a bit of a stretch to deem New Labour much more than "centrist" at best, in my book, given their love of abhorrences like zero hours contracts, benefits sanctioning, workfare, tuition fees, universal surveillance, the persistence of the US' War on Drugs, and their pledge to not reverse any of the Conservatives' cuts.

I'm joining you: Green. Sadly, the constituency is about as solidly blue as yours - current idiot's a helicoptered candidate who barely knows the town exists. Amusingly, one of his current planks is improving the NHS, as he experienced the sheer delight of having to be ferried by ambulance for half an hour, thanks to his bloody bunch closing the A&E of the town's hospital.

It'll feel so damned good, though, to be voting positively: for a party I can genuinely get behind.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

If I remember correctly from the Panorama programme featuring Nate Silver, the American statistician who has an excellent record on forecasting election outcomes, Ladbrookes betting shops were predicting a minority Labour government supported by a coalition of left-wing minority parties, such as the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Greens.