tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post1309105605096571361..comments2024-02-13T03:59:13.635+00:00Comments on Eat Electric Death: A British Dream [brit]Slimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020308502156946280noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-57734950814756374482004-02-09T19:47:00.008+00:002004-02-09T19:47:00.008+00:00There were more, until our constituency voted out ...There were more, until our constituency voted out the double-barrelled fucker at the last election in favour of the Lib Dem woman. Hurrah!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-12694169817524655802004-02-09T19:47:00.007+00:002004-02-09T19:47:00.007+00:00Yes but they all want one.Yes but they all want one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-49320831640585828662004-02-09T19:47:00.006+00:002004-02-09T19:47:00.006+00:00Sorry old chap, but there's only 3 Tory MPs with d...Sorry old chap, but there's only 3 Tory MPs with double barrelled names, out of 165 in the House of Commons; and none in the House of Lords.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-84549346347374166632004-02-09T19:47:00.005+00:002004-02-09T19:47:00.005+00:00Yeah - which is why proportional representation is...Yeah - which is why proportional representation is a Good Thing. In a situation where a third party is marginal, a simple majority system always favours the status quo because people vote strategically in that way; whereas a PR system would allow you to place your first vote for the candidate you actually wanted, and then vote strategically with the rest of your card. It's a system that's much Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-6325862787516965822004-02-09T19:47:00.004+00:002004-02-09T19:47:00.004+00:00I know what you're saying. I had the same experien...I know what you're saying. I had the same experience with my local Lib Dem candidate, I think I did a blog about it at some point. I'd vote for them based on my excellent experience with her but for one thing... she hasn't a hope of winning. Enter the concept of the strategic vote, I'm better off voting for the local Tory candidate because they stand at least a snowball's chance in hell at takingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-77245882298498090632004-02-09T19:47:00.003+00:002004-02-09T19:47:00.003+00:00Personally I vote Lib Dem on the basis of the stre...Personally I vote Lib Dem on the basis of the strengths of our local Lib Dem candidate, who I have a lot of time for - especially when compared with the other option in this district, a snotty public school Tory with a double-barrelled name who embodies everything I dislike about the Tory party.<br>However, I hear your arguments about the party as a whole, and I acknowledge that they have major Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-36276816511346021822004-02-09T19:47:00.002+00:002004-02-09T19:47:00.002+00:00Every Tory election campaign I ever saw seemed to ...Every Tory election campaign I ever saw seemed to be based on 'At least we're not Labour'. It's just a shame that the Lib Dems have such a stupidly inconsistent set of policies - oh and that Kennedy is the concept of cheap politics embodied. I think they've been fingered as such as well, despite subsequently have been proven 'right', in the whole Iraq thing - they're not going to capitalise from Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-24380753484805897352004-02-09T19:47:00.001+00:002004-02-09T19:47:00.001+00:00Um, okay. I'm coming at this from a slightly diffe...Um, okay. I'm coming at this from a slightly different angle; I'm not British, so the whole 'proud to be British' thing doesn't affect me really, but I do come from a country which is quite big on national pride and as such I understand why British people would want to reclaim that. That being said, I'm not as convinced as you seem to be that it has atrophied entirely; I think a lot of people Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-60499553847500204362004-02-09T19:47:00.000+00:002004-02-09T19:47:00.000+00:00I too have also considered the Conservatives as be...I too have also considered the Conservatives as being a better natural fit for my political inclinations than the labour party. Yet the problem is the Conservatives refusal to modernize; they are still very much a party aimed at the mentality of the elderly public-schooled Englishman and this is on several points, fundamentally incompatible with my views.<br>Let us not forget, they created the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com