Why?
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
What makes you think they'd be inclined to vote Labour if they were to vote Dada?
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus, the Male Poster (Dada), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Because the people who put New Labour in power are Tory voters at heart.
― Dadaismus, the Male Poster (Dada), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
But when the Bee-Enned Peas are doing well it tends to be in poorer areas doesn't it? The poorer and younger you are the easier it is to nudge you rightwards (or rather reactionary behaviour, rather than conservatism itself), no?
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Progressive politics: is what is needed
Bill of RightsPR voting systemscrap ID cards [this is new labour's poll tax..that will ultimately lead to their downfall]scrap tuition feesintroduce 50p top band of tax for over 100K incomeTax incentives for business that create jobs in Britain..and penalties for those that outsource British jobs outside of EUget out of Iraq
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
If there's no chance of it happening then how is it any more of a surefire way of them winning than say, all Tories switching their votes to Labour?
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus, the Male Poster (Dada), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus, the Male Poster (Dada), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Then they can be all 'hray' when they do.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus, the Male Poster (Dada), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Basically, people end up voting for whoever they think is going to win.
except the people who vote Lib Dem etc?
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Flourishes is putting it a bit strongly
― Dadaismus, the Male Poster (Dada), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
is this at all true?
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus, the Male Poster (Dada), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus, the Male Poster (Dada), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link
you can still win the actual MP vote innit.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
The home secretary told a Westminster lunch the fact Mr Dromey did not know about the loans meant "you have to wonder how well he was doing his work".
It's like that Mad magazine line where a pedestrian knocked 20 feet into the air by a police car 'was today charged with leaving the scene of an accident'.
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Next time, if it's the same decision again, I will probably vote Labour in Rugby, extremely begrudgingly.
― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Look at them over there on the left with their fancy castle and their Tory votes. They're nothing to do with us!
― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, ditto. I wanted to vote Lib/Dem last time but in Rugby it was a wasted vote so I voted Labour. I can't even remember the name of our Tory MP.
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link
It's crap like that that make me want to vote Labour.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
otm
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
If the Lib Dems had any chance of winning a general election (or even a by-election in my constituency) I'd vote for them. But at the moment my vote can best be used keeping those evil fucking Tories out of power for as long as possible - which, however disillusioned I am with them, means voting Labour.
― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
ha! cos everyone in floating voters land, especially in the 'burbs thinks like this.
― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
there is a far smaller gap between labour and the tories than between gore and bush (not that there was much of a gap there either...).
but shit yeah, maybe a tory government would, like bush, take us into an illegal war, increase the gap between rich and poor and clamp down on civil liberties... watch out people!
― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Yep, born and bred in Rugby though my folks are from oop north. Live in Clifton now.
― si_c@arter, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
But (sort of getting back to the topic) I can't believe those boundaries! Astounding bit of sneaky footwork. I'd never have put Rugby and Kenilworth together (and I speak as someone who lived in Leamington Spa for...oh far too long). When did they do that? Rugby was a classic marginal - swinging from labour to tory and back and now - pretty safe tory seat I should imagine?
Rugby has got that splendid church though...erm...St Andrews. (back off topic)
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I just looked it up on Wikipedia though and look!
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Warwickshire, the seat of Rugby and Kenilworth is to be abolished.
The sucessor seats are Kenilworth and Southam, which was originally to be named "Mid Warwickshire", and a re-formed Rugby constituency.
Woohoo! Independence at last! I got confirmed in St. Andrews church, but I don't remember the inside, just the scary alley round the back. I used to hang around the graveyard sometimes in gothier days.
― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
how about now?
― Riot Clone, Thursday, 6 April 2006 07:38 (eighteen years ago) link