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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2014-11-24 01:38 pm
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General election murblings

I have been saying for some time that I really need to look at voting statistics for my borough in order to determine whether I need to vote for my (mostly competent, keeps trying to pick twitter fights with Julian Huppert) Labour MP Andrew Slaughter in order to avoid a Tory, or whether Andy's sufficiently safe that I can vote LD or Green instead depending on policies and candidates.

As it turns out, there isn't enough record to make a good call because the borough's only bloody existed since like 2010 (in its most recent incarnation; it previously existed 1885-1918 and 1983-1997, but I'm not poking at boundary maps hard enough to work out whether that's meaningful for my purposes). Anyway, it looks like Andy's sufficiently safe that I can vote according to my politics + desire for candidates without risking getting a bloody Conservative in; which means I will wait for Green & LD candidates to be announced and then make my mind up. (For all Andy annoys me he does mostly respond plausibly to letters and I approve of his interactions with the NHS, so.)
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[personal profile] catyak 2014-11-24 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly it has long been a case of voting for least-worst rather than best.

Last time out it was important to dump Labour who were turning us into a nanny state. Now it looks like the UK is becoming a police state (although the previous government weren't exactly blameless for that either) so it's necessary to work out who might stop that.

[personal profile] swaldman 2014-11-25 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure that we can stop the creep of the police state by voting. We have an (arguable) choice between the party that says it believes in human rights, versus the party that says it believes in civil liberties[1]. Both appear to believe what they are told by the spooks.

[1] Actually, I'm not sure that's even true any more.