Category: politics

I bin votin’. It’s fun. You should all do it too.

Polly Toynbee seems to think that the anti-Blair protest voters will have achieved their aim, even if the Labour party retain a large majority tomorrow. Even if Labour wins a sizable majority, Blair’s time is over as the ground shifts fast beneath his feet; he is yesterday’s man. By 2am on Friday morning, after the… Continue reading Yesterday’s Man

Gary Younge on Labour’s scare tactics. There is as much veracity to the claim that voting for the Liberal Democrats will let the Tories through the back door as there was that Saddam Hussein was 45 minutes from killing us all.

I was starting to think that our road ha fallen off the election map. Apart from a few leaflets we got through the door earlier this week I hadn’t seen any sign of any campaigning activity. Then today, as we get back from a walk on the common, we find that the Labour party have… Continue reading Manifesto

An article on the front page of today’s Independent investigates the Labour party’s claim that protest voters run the risk of opening the door to a Tory government. Their conclusion? It’s bollocks. It would take a swing of 11.5% away from Labour for Tony Blair to lose his commons majority, but even that wouldn’t leave… Continue reading Vote for Lib Dems will not let in Tories

On election night, Guardian Unlimited will, of course, have all of the results on the site as they are announced. Something as important as this obviously requires people to be here overnight ensuring that everything goes smoothly. And it seems that I’m going to be one of this crack technical team. I’m looking forward to… Continue reading The Results Must Get Through

If you’re in the London constituency of Brent South then there’s apparently no point in voting on May 5th. Dawn Butler is standing to replace the existing Labour MP, Paul Boeteng, and her new web site is already declaring her as the winner. I realise that a 17,000 majority might give you a certain amount… Continue reading No Point Voting in Brent South

That’s it all over then. The Sun has this morning thrown it’s weight behind the Labour Party saying that they’ll give them “one last chance”. What, I suspect, has actually happened is that Murdoch’s election “experts” have decided that a Labour victory looks inevitable and therefore the paper is backing Blair so they can run… Continue reading The Sun Says “Vote Blair”

Still trying to get help in working out who to vote for, so I turned to the Political Survey 2005. My results are here. They suggest I vote for the Green Party (which would be unlikely to be honest) but the biggest surprise for me was that they described me as “fairly socialist”. Fairly!