Categories: election-2010
Date: 18 April 2010 13:06:02
No, not about life generally. It still refers to my feelings about the forthcoming election. I am still awaiting an answer of some sort about the questions I sent through to the main two local candidates. The local Lib Dem office has come back with two acknowledgement e-mails but no answers the local Labour office has blanked me. I should point out here I would be quite happy to have acknowledged they are 10 complex, (and I acknowledge leading), questions and just have the key bits of relevent policy highlighted for me. As it is from the figures and propoganda flying around the city I totally suspect that there is a real feeling that a socialist vote is not worth as much as a Tory one here. The reason for this is that if everybody who voted Tory here last time were to switch to Lib Dem, and the Lib Dems maintained their vote then the Labour candidate could technically be defeated. Thus, the focus is on trying to get Tories to vote Lib Dem if they switch, and to ensure the far right parties, which I include UKIP within don't attract voters. The disillusioned left is seen, I suspect, as a problem to be ignored or taken as granted as being Labour voters. This I resent as I know I am not the only former Lib Dem supporter who has been as disillusioned by their shift to the right as we were by New Labour in the first place.
Sometime this week I guess I will have to start ploughing my way through the manifestos aswell as working out which of the many forthcoming debates I can get to in order to hear the local candidates go head to head. As there is no Green or old skool socialist splitter candidate to vote for, as yet and The Tories, UKIP and the BNP are all in the "not on your nelly" category the option of trying to help a minority party keep their deposit is currently not an option I really am going to have to decide between the two Woods, Carol Woods Lib Dem and Roberta Blackman-Woods Labour.
If any readers has any good arguments for voting one or other on a local or national level I would be happy to hear and debate.