Has anyone tried this?
http://voteforpolicies.org.uk/
Gives you the policies to choose from, without saying which party they belong to, & then shows the result at the end.
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I hate both the Tories and New Labour, so I'll be voting Lib Dem (again).
There are some Tory policies I agree with, & some Labour policies I agree with, but overall I agree with more Lib Dem policies... plus I despise both Cameron & Brown.
Cambridge used to be Labour, 'till the Lib Dems kicked them out at the last election (partly thanks to the anti Iraq war vote IIRC).
Our current MP, David Howarth, is really good. I've contacted him about a few things, & he actually replies (email & post). He even signed an EDM I wrote to him about. When the Expense Scandal broke, he was one of the very few MPs who wasn't milking the taxpayer - No 2nd home allowance at all, he did the sensible thing of COMMUTING from Cambridge to London.
Sadly he's stepping down this election, but the Lib Dem candidate to replace him sounds good, especially on civil liberties and science (two things Labour sucks at).
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Originally Posted by Sirius
I can never vote Lib Dems as i cannot trust them to stand up for this country in time of need, They are the sort of party that will roll over and sell us out so they don't have to get in a argument. One of there policies is to take us straight into the Euro is it not ??
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They dropped that a couple of years ago.
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Originally Posted by Mick
- Gordon Brown is not an elected Prime Minister.
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So? Neither was Blair, nor Major, nor Maggie...
I cannot stand Brown, or New Labour, but under our system he is PM, fair & square.
We do not elect the Prime Minister.
We elect our own local constituency MP, the party with the majority of MPs then forms a Government, with the head of that party as Prime Minister. If the party later changes leader, and so the PM changes...sucks, but that's how it works.
Sure, I think it would have been better if Brown had called an election after he took over from Blair, but he was under no requirement to do so. He was chosen by the people in his constituency to represent them, and his party chose him to lead it after Blair, so we got stuck with him. That's how it is.