Topic: Voting at an election

[Old Central]

Thank you for that, after a bit of navigation I found I was amongst the 12,002 spoiled slips out of 2,219,239 that voted, so a drop in the ocean way back in 2004, but at least I "turned out".

Ninny

Glad to help - when we had the first London Mayor and Euros with different voting systems on the same day I seem to recall the numbers of genuinely spoiled ballot papers, as opposed to deliberately spoiled like yours, were high.

OC

[BarriedaleNick]

My vote goes to...

http://www.noneoftheaboveparty.org.uk/

[cocopops]

This is an interesting link but be careful to read the questions carefully as it is easy to answer them the wrong way round.  The result was not what I expected. 

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/elections/party-matcher

[OllieC]

This is an interesting link but be careful to read the questions carefully as it is easy to answer them the wrong way round.  The result was not what I expected. 

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/elections/party-matcher

75% Lib Dem
63% Labour
45% Tory

Good job I'm a member of the Lib Dems!

[Squash64]

This is an interesting link but be careful to read the questions carefully as it is easy to answer them the wrong way round.  The result was not what I expected. 

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/elections/party-matcher

I got 71% Labour
         71% Liberal Democrats
         46% Conservative

I'm not confused though, I know who I'm voting for. :)

[SamLouise]

A lot of those questions are quite ambiguous.  My result came out as

59% Conservative
50% Labour
40% Liberal

I don't have much faith in any of them to be honest  :-\

[cocopops]

I thought that but looking back if you choose the areas that you are most interested in on the first page (your 20 votes) they will ask you more questions on the areas that are of concern to you.  My brother did it and got back the completely opposite of what he thought.  He is going to do it again with more thought to his first page interests.

[Unwashed]

55% labour
53% lib dem
49% tory

[grawrc]

80% Lib Dem
70% Labour
40% Conservative

[caroline7758]

68% Lib Dem
65%Labour
51% Tory

I probably will vote Lib Dem as the Labour candidate won't have a chance now they've changed the boundaries. >:(

[digalotty]

my holiday has been re scheduled for that week but we are going to vote even if by post :-X

[powerspade]

??? How can I use 20 choices when there arre only 13 to pick from?

[theothermarg]

I am sure who I will vote for, it's the current MP who is a good bloke and works hard, so that is why I am avoiding all the debates and contant bickering and pointless chatter about it
I was fed up 2 minutes after it was announced
marg

[cocopops]

??? How can I use 20 choices when there arre only 13 to pick from?

.  Click + on the topics that matter to you until the counter reaches 20, it is shown on the upper right of the screen.  Not that easy to understand but this then generates the next page which asks you more about the topics you are intersted in.

[Paulines7]

75%  Labour             
58%  Lib Dem   
39%  Conservative   

I have signs in my garden in support of our Lib Dem candidate, but it is tactical as it is a straight race here between the Conservatives and Lib Dems.

[landimad]

If Screaming Lord Such was around still, he would get my vote.
Bin all the out dated laws and start again with up dated ones. :-X

As far as todays pick of the bunch I am  :-\

[Froglegs]

well i'm  :-\ as they all seem to  p*ss in the same pot once there in.

[pigeonseed]

I think disenchantment with all politics is very sad.

I don't think the parties are all the same (although if you were to only listen to the televised debate the other day, you'd think so, as the Cameron and Brown both sounded the same. )

But in reality, I think the political philosophies of those two parties are very different, and that's reflected in how they govern and spend our money when they're elected.

I think inspite of how awful the stupid expenses scandal was, our politicians are not corrupt, when you compare them to politicians in many countries. I'm very anti-Tory myself, but I even respect people who stand for election as Tories, because at least they're doing something about the world we live in.

If you let people stand for parliament or council, some of them will be crap. That's the way it goes - same as some postmen are crap, some accountants are crap etc.

If we gave up on postmen and women no letters would be delivered, and in the same way, how would we manage without politicians? (well okay if there are anarchists on here, they might have an answer for that!  ;D)

[grannyjanny]

Our present man is George Osborne. No one has been round canvassing & no fliers through the door so far. We haven't even been accosted when out shopping. Martin Bell used to be our man. The one time I regret not putting a bet on ;D.

[tonybloke]

we're been canvassed by a chap that lives 2 counties away!! (essex) talk about 'keep it local, keep it real',  eh?