Category: politics

WhoShouldYouVoteFor.com tells me that I should be voting LibDem! Who should I vote for? Your expected outcome: Labour Your actual outcome: Labour 4 Conservative -75 Liberal Democrat 96 UK Independence Party -22 Green 66 You should vote: Liberal Democrat The LibDems take a strong stand against tax cuts and a strong one in favour of… Continue reading Who Should You Vote For?

Interesting story in yesterday’s Evening Standard[1]. Apparently the Labour Party are trying to get the best value from their electoral funds by spending most of the money in constituencies with a majority of under 5,000 votes. That seems to be where they think the danger line is. The story also reports rumours that constituencies with… Continue reading Labour Writes Off Seats to Save Money

Apparently the Labour Party are now trying to win back anti-war voters by promising an enhanced package of international aid. Labour plans to win back voters disaffected by the Iraq war with a manifesto pledge for international action on HIV/Aids treatment, a treaty to control the arms trade and a timetable for phasing out export… Continue reading Labour Plea to Anti-War Voters

I seem to be getting all the Labour Party election emails. Which is annoying in one way, but I can’t be bothered to unsubscribe as it’s interesting to see what they are telling their supporters. This evening I got a good one that claimed to come from Alastair Campbell. It was sent at 20:02 and… Continue reading Labour Party Time Travellers

Peter Hain has been banging on again about the Labour supporters who don’t feel they can vote for the Labour Party this time. Quoted in yesterday’s Observer he says. There’s now a kind of dinner party critics who quaff shiraz or chardonnay and just sneeringly say, “You are no different from the Tories”,’ he said.… Continue reading Peter Hain Talks Nonsense

Stephen Wilkinson seems like a sensible chap. Stephen Wilkinson, who until yesterday was Labour’s candidate for Ribble Valley and a Labour member of Lancashire county council, said he had become disillusioned with Tony Blair’s “increasingly authoritarian” party. He criticised the government’s anti-terror legislation and the “illegal war” in Iraq and said the Labour government had… Continue reading Labour Defection

Backing Blair have raised enough money to get their first campaign truck on the road. It’ll be appearing at various places in London during the day. Excellent timing too, that it’s on the day that the election is called.

It seems I completely missed this wonderful letter when it was published in the Guardian earlier this month. We were wondering if perhaps Hazel Blears couldn’t help your overworked police force to identify terrorist suspects, by making dubious peoples wear some form of easily recognised symbol, for instance a yellow star. We have read this… Continue reading Identifying Terrorists

Later on, my wife also got the same call from the Labour Party that I mentioned yesterday. Unsurprisingly, she gave pretty similar answers to me. One thing we both noticed when discussing the calls afterwards was that the party didn’t seem particularly interested in our specific reasons for not voting Labour this time. I think… Continue reading Labour Phone Calls

Two short political stories from yesterday. Firstly I got a phone call from my local Labour Party. They were interested in my voting history and voting intentions. The conversation went something like this: LP: Can you tell me who you are going to vote for this time? Me: To be honest I have no idea.… Continue reading Political Vignettes