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April 22, 2005

Who should you vote for?

A handy website for people voting in the imminent UK general election. Too late for me as my absentee ballot is already decided (via Shatnerian).

The aim of this site is to provide voters in the 2005 UK general election with a simple tool to see how the main parties represent their views. While this site is not pursuing any political agenda we would obviously urge all users to research the issues in greater detail themselves before making their final voting choice.

Not that it would have changed my vote. My result suggested I should vote Conservative. The problem with all quiz thingees of this type is that they have difficulty weighting the relative importance to voters of specific issues let alone addressing "deal breaker" issues. For me those issues are security and defense, equality before the law, and freedom of expression. Labour does not fair well on that last issue but does well enough on the first two that I would not consider a lousy Conservative alternative for all three. Another imponderable is trust. I do not agree with much of what Tony Blair advocates but I trust the man. By contrast, the only thing Ann Widdecombe ever said that I agreed with was that "there is something of the night" about Michael Howard. Creepy. At least the quiz fairly addressed my active antipathy for the Liberal Democrats.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 22, 2005 05:17 AM

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That's what those quizzes never quite take into account, right?

I mean, based on what the platform and promises say, I might even be a bit closer to the federal Liberals than the Conservatives. But I do not trust them, not one bit. (I would even vote for the socialist hordes over them.)

That quiz told me to vote Green in the UK. Rather odd.

Posted by: Ben [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 24, 2005 11:50 AM

Oh, never mind. Different UK selector. I got UK Independence Party (slightly better match than the Conservatives).

And I think that's due to an over-simplification of the policy choices available on the quiz.

Nevertheless, this time around, I would be voting Labour if I were living there.

Posted by: Ben [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 24, 2005 11:57 AM

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