Wednesday
Apr142010
Election 2010: how should you vote?
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 Votematch is designed to help you determine your voting preference come the general election. It's easy to do and takes less than five minutes. See HERE or below.
For what it's worth, the program couldn't decide my "best match" because my scores were as follows:
Conservative 61%
UKIP 61%
Labour 39%
Liberal Democrats 35%
Fancy that!
Reader Comments (28)
Thanks for that Simon, interesting.
My results were 53% UKIP, 45% Lib Dem, 44% Conservative and 33% Labour.
I was surprised by the fact that Lib Dems were second, even if only by 1%. Certainly helpful though.
As Victor Meldrew would say..."I don't believe it" UKIP...AAAAAAGGGGHHHHH.....
UK Independence Party: 69%
Conservative Party: 44%
Liberal Democrats: 24%
OK I got it now, it's a UKIP propaganda thing, got up by their chief propagandist Simon Clark
I suppose that it could be amusing, but I do not need any help do decide what I have to do!
Funny you should say that Peter. Six of my friends and I all came out Lib Dem, much to our surprise, and have been trying to deconstruct the site to see if it was secretly owned by the LD's!
Pffft, if you ask me the greatest electoral reform we can have is if we all have to fill in something like this in the voting booth, and then our vote is cast according to the result. That way we will no longer have people voting for piles of poo just because they have a red or blue rosette attached to them; the parties will have to announce real policies rather than vaguse feelgood soundbites like "Encourage business to do better" (what does that mean?); and people who are frankly too stupid to vote are forced to think about the issues that are at stake.
And I appreciate talking about stupidity is rich when there's a glaring typo in the post, but it's this damn laptop keyboard....
Wow, that's an eye opener!
UKIP 70% (no surprise there)
BNP 62% (wow, very unexpected)
Conservative 33% (I thought the first and second result would be reversed, to be honest)
LIB DEM (29%) (I'd never vote Lib Dem, but I just wanted to see how they'd perform given my answers).
Interesting toy! I can only imagine my "Global warming is a myth" and "climate is low priority" answers gave the BNP this high result, as my answers on immigration were fairly libertarian (No ID cards for immigrants as I'm against ID cards in principle) etc. Unless wanting to deport foreign-born criminals is somehow BNP territory now, of course? That must be it as there were no questions on "encouraging repatriation" or the like.
It also seems odd as all my answers were "small state" / pro individual in nature, and as the BNP are a bunch of Big State authoritarians (basically 1930s Labour with added racism) it seems odd they'd get such a high result. As I said before, it must be my daring to think that climate change is a myth that did it.
Great fun, no doubt.
But am I alone in detecting a distinct lack of excitement about this election 'campaign' ?
I've been very naughty!
I used my cousin's London post code to have a go on Votematch!
This was my result
UKIP - 67%
BNP - 59%
CONS - 52%
And its the way I would vote if I could.
How accurate is that!!
Well, well:
My top score was for the BNP - @ 70%.
That settles it.
I'm getting my head shaved this morning, after a visit to the nearest tattoo parlour, and shall in future only dine at McDonald's (gotta get that body mass index up quickly).
Anyone know where I can get the English version of 'Die Sturmer' (my German's not too strong) ?
Now I need to find out what colour and gender I am: you can never be TOO certain about these things............
Blimey i'm paractically a fascist.
EEEEEK !
I am glad that I came out UKIP though.
Phew !
UK Independence Party: 77%
British National Party: 68%
Conservative Party: 41%
Dont get the tattoos yet Martin, whatever about the shaved head.
If the BNP did get elected there would be a rush to the bespoke tailors, style gurus and voice coaches before bums touched down on parliament seats.
And the wives would be taking tea with Samantha and Sara.
What makes you think they would be any different from the present incumbents.
Its called the power game.
And there you'd be, all tattood up, while Mr Griffin would be distancing himself from you.
Just behind you on that one, Specky !
I think it was probably my clicking on 'Agree' for the 'All brown-skinned people should be bombed in the name of Freedom and Democracy' option that clinched it.
Ann -
Thanks for the sound advice.
I'll keep hold of my hair for now, and substitute a little subtle face-painting for the tattoos.
Personally, I'd go for the 'mailed fist' design - but too many people, I fear, would take me for an off-duty policeman (or social worker).
Decisions, decisions..................
To be honest i'd rather have come out BNP than Labour.
Labour would mean i'd have to start to become a lying corrupt spinning control freak who talks absuloute fabricated garbage about any issue.
I don't think I could have spent the rest of my life wearing a Trotsky cap with a red star on it .
Or dungarees ,yuk.
Put them to the question if we get enough votes on the subject here
http://www.youtube.com/ukelection
Just type in smoking in the search you will see my post by Jase then tick like or dislike if you prefere the more votes we get then they will have to answer surly???
The Dude said: "That way we will no longer have people voting for piles of poo just because they have a red or blue rosette attached to them; the parties will have to announce real policies rather than vaguse feelgood soundbites ....."
The problem here is that no-one can seriously believe everything that is said in a run up to an election, by any party and we certainly cannot trust the manifesto's!
At the end of the day, they will each say what they believe they need to say to get our vote. Once in they will do as they like!
I have never voted but it appears that if I did I would be a Tory euro skeptic.
Conservative Party: 52%
UK Independence Party:52%
Labour Party:30%
Liberal Democrats:30%
UKIP seems to be doing well - doesn't it ?
OMG - I was 75% UKIP!
I came out UKIP too - I think I broadly support all their policies, except pulling out of Europe. I'm a fan of the EU.
Oh dear! Mine was BNP 66%, UKIP 57%, L-D 40%, Con 37% and Labour 19%. That’s really surprising, because there are some policies of the BNP’s that I really, really object to (and not, incidentally, the ones which everyone else gets in such a stew about, which fall into the “don’t like them very much” category for me). But then, being as there is almost certainly not going to be a BNP candidate standing in the bluer-than-a-blue-thing-wearing-a-blue-suit-and-feeling-a-bit-blue area that I live in I guess it doesn’t make much difference anyway.
Admit it guys, the silent majority is thinking like the BNP, the more votes they get it will change policy of the main parties.
Can I reiterate my comments about the BNP, posted elsewhere? It is entirely counter-productive to promote/talk up the BNP and I want to make it clear that I disassociate myself and this blog from any comments that might be deemed to support the BNP or any similar group.
I would rather shine shoes at ASH UK than vote for or promote the BNP.
Simon, guys gals, it is unlikely there are too many real apologists for the BNP on TL. It just goes to show how out of touch some political parties are, and Labour's conniving to rub our noses in the dirt on multi-culturalism certainly has caused great offence.
Anyway the antidote to the BNP is this website and James and Imran who work for the organisation Nothing British About The BNP and who I met last Wednesday would definitely advise caution.
http://www.nothingbritish.com/