Are you going to vote tactically?

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 28 Apr 2010, 14:09

Undercover,

Are you really telling me that you live in Brighton, support the Greens, but intend to vote Labour to keep the Tories out? Yet you told the polling agency you will vote LD.

I think you need to simplify. Just vote Green!

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 28 Apr 2010, 14:28

RalphW wrote:Undercover,

Are you really telling me that you live in Brighton, support the Greens, but intend to vote Labour to keep the Tories out? Yet you told the polling agency you will vote LD.

Yep.

If I still lived in Brighton Pavillion then of course I'd vote green. But I actually live in Brighton Kemptown which is a lab-con marginal, 45th on the tory hitlist. I'm expecting the tories to take it, but tactical voting for labour might just prevent this from happening. The greens and libdems are nowhere in this seat, because it takes anti-tory tactical voting by everybody else to overcome the tory parts of the constituency (costa geriatrica). I told the polling agency that I will vote LD because the higher the LDs go in the polls, the more likely it is that people will vote for them in places where they can actually win. I'm voting for a hung parliament.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 28 Apr 2010, 18:18

I have the luxury of living in a const whose green candidate is second in the polls to the sitting Labour chap. I shall therefore be voting Green

Janco2 · Post by **Janco2** » 28 Apr 2010, 21:37

I really want to vote green but the conservatives hope to take this seat from the LD so I think I'll reluctantly vote LD.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 28 Apr 2010, 21:46

Just tweeted by Stephen Fry:

stephenfry Still surprising myself with LibDem thoughts. Haven't yet heard good anti-hung parliament argument yet. Interesting. Few days to decide.

He has 1,469,551 followers!

Last week he tweeted:

Frankly I'm tempted to vote Lib Dem now. If we let the Telegraph and Mail win, well, freedom and Britain die.

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 28 Apr 2010, 21:57

I have about 50 followers ... and I have not ever sent a single tweet, as I only registered.

Weird.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 29 Apr 2010, 22:52

You're not being followed by Rentokil, are you? (this after the notorious Tube Train "research").

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 30 Apr 2010, 08:23

RenewableCandy wrote:You're not being followed by Rentokil, are you? (this after the notorious Tube Train "research").

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 30 Apr 2010, 11:46

Err..sorry, here's the explanation (courtesy of Ben Goldacre).

Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 13 March 2010

“2,000 bugs taking a ride in every train compartment” said the Daily Mail. “Cockroaches cluster on trains“, scuttled the Telegraph. “Commuters share trains with 1,000 cockroaches, 200 bedbugs and 200 fleas” said the Evening Standard. The figures were all very specific and very frightening...

“Rentokil say they also discovered that a bus was home to 500 cockroaches, along with dozens of fleas and bedbugs,” explained the Standard.

These figures are very specific, and they do all sound a little bit on the high side. Where did they come from?

Rentokil have engaged in some seriously surreal PR activity on Twitter during my digging on this story...

caspian · Post by **caspian** » 30 Apr 2010, 13:02

I love Ben Goldacre, I wish he was my big brother.

jonny2mad · Post by **jonny2mad** » 03 May 2010, 12:05

well where I live we don't have a green candidate its conservative where labour is weak third and the liberal democrats could win

we have the main three party's the bnp ukip english democrats and one independent

saw a talk by the liberal democrat and he was agreeing the town needs more car parking looked on their site they don't have a thing about peak oil nothing about population or immigration that I could see.

I have in the past voted green and the most peak oil party standing where I am by far is the bnp but half my family are chinese, I'm not, but Im not going to vote for them.

so I'm likely to vote liberal :0( or not bother going

2 As and a B · Post by **2 As and a B** » 04 May 2010, 06:52

jonny2mad wrote:so I'm likely to vote liberal :0( or not bother going

What an irony. Do tell us Jonny, so we know which way to rib you.

jonny2mad · Post by **jonny2mad** » 04 May 2010, 11:14

foodimista wrote:
jonny2mad wrote:so I'm likely to vote liberal :0( or not bother going
What an irony. Do tell us Jonny, so we know which way to rib you.

You can see the thought of it upsets me by my :0( face I may talk to the independent whose standing , voting green as I would normally do is pretty upsetting because apart from the green bit I dislike their social policy's and general fluffiness .

I feel unrepresented, being in a room full of liberals just makes me growl, I may not vote this year or write none of the above .

The liberal democrat candidate was very cheerful as well

it was awful they were all asking questions like what can we do to lower business rate, or get people to shop here and not drive to cribbs causeway,and I was thinking you poor saps how long will you last digging through old landfills .......

I was going to ask him a peak oil question but I knew it would do no good

so just looked at the cake stall in a forlorn way

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 04 May 2010, 11:47

jonny2mad wrote:...so just looked at the cake stall in a forlorn way

Genius. That's almost poetic