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12:01 am: European Election Day
The parties that make me want to vomit when I think about people voting for them:
1. British National Party
2. Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship" (For my Christian friends who may wonder why: Because this party's manifesto promises that, if elected, they want to: Reinstate Section 28, to ban "promotion of homosexuality" in schools; Work against acceptance of LGBT people in Scotland; Allow religious organisations and churches to discriminate on the grounds of sexual orientation/gender identity; Teach children that homosexuality is a "health hazard"; Ban abortion; Ban provision of contraception to minors without their parents consent; Promote the idea that parents are entitled to "reasonably chastise" their child in order to maintain good family discipline; Keep children in need of parents in care rather than allow them to be adopted or fostered by LGBT people; Require a couple who want a divorce to have to lay blame on one or the other and justify their wish to divorce to a court; End civil partnership as a direct equivalent to marriage for same-sex couples; deny transgendered people the right to a changed birth certificate/gender recognition; and require all children being educated in state schools, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, atheists, to listen to the Bible being read to them every day. They have a bunch of eco-friendly policies as well, but no better than the Scottish Greens: in effect, they are the Green party for bigots who hate women, hate non-Christians, and hate LGBT people.)

The parties that appear to have been made up by a bunch of blokey Scots who thought they'd be rather good in the pub one night:
1. Jury Team
2. No2EU:Yes to Democracy
3. UK Independence Party

The parties that were made up by a bunch of blokes who thought they'd be rather good, only that night was quite some time ago:
1. Conservative Party
2. Labour Party
3. Scottish National Party

The party that came about because of some really bizarre political infighting in the 1980s, that pushes more political bumf through my door than all the others put together:
1. Liberal Democrats

The parties that I could just about squint and consider voting for, if I had to:
1. Scottish Socialist Party
2. Socialist Labour Party

The party I'm probably going to voted for:
1. Scottish Green Party.

The lone Scottish bloke who wandered in and thought he'd have a go: Duncan Robertson.

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From:[info]ruthi
Date:dayordJune 2009 07:37 pm (UTC)
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I haven't finished applying for citizenship (yay personal fail yay) and I can't vote. I am urging ccooke to vote.
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From:[info]yonmei
Date:dayordJune 2009 06:06 am (UTC)
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You will enjoy it! It is great fun.

(I'm lying. It's not really. But it's less work than voting in the US.)

Get CCooke to vote! He should. However he votes, so long as it's not for one of the yucky parties, and I'm sure he wouldn't.
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From:[info]solo
Date:dayordJune 2009 02:17 am (UTC)
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LOL Duncan Robertson. :-)
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From:[info]yonmei
Date:dayordJune 2009 06:08 am (UTC)
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I did try to look up Duncan Robertson, but all I could find about him was that he was an entrepreneur from Angus. I presume he's better known locally, but if he has a website, it's not one that comes up with easy googling, which seems to make his trying to run nationally a bit futile.
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From:[info]solo
Date:dayordJune 2009 06:13 am (UTC)
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Maybe he's there on a bet: "Let's see how many people will vote for me without knowing anything about me at all." I certainly haven't had any campaign material from him, either.
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From:[info]yonmei
Date:dayordJune 2009 06:18 am (UTC)
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Actually, he does have a website - I found it linked to from the Wikipedia article about him. It's difficult when you have a bogstandard name to make your website stand out, but there are techniques that will help - the creation and promotion of a unique slogan that people associate with you, getting online volunteers to link back to your website from appropriate sites (there are ways of doing this that are not just linkspam). Etc. None of which, I think I can safely say, he seems to have done.

Huh. I wonder if there are going to be a lot of Independent candidates running in the next General Election, and if it would be legal to offer myself as an independent professional consultant to candidates who want to be, at least, findable online?
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From:[info]mllesatine
Date:dayordJune 2009 11:30 am (UTC)
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I voted today, too. Well, I made my cross yesterday and I could choose from three parties for senior citizens, four or five Christian ones (the Christian Middle says "NO to porn, homo sex, child abuse, disorderly sexuality and YES to a family willed by God and Christian Order" Also: "all abortions are murder").

I decided between a Green Party and the Liberals. What really helped me was a thing called Vote-O-Mat on the website of the European Parliament where you could compare your own stand on certain issues with the one of almost all parties and read the statements on the issues.

I would never vote for a party that calls itself "socialist". The word has such a bad connotation around here. No, I couldn't.
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From:[info]yonmei
Date:dayordJune 2009 03:30 pm (UTC)
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I decided between a Green Party and the Liberals. What really helped me was a thing called Vote-O-Mat on the website of the European Parliament where you could compare your own stand on certain issues with the one of almost all parties and read the statements on the issues.

I already knew I liked the Scottish Green party, and their MEP in Scotland.

I would never vote for a party that calls itself "socialist". The word has such a bad connotation around here. No, I couldn't.

I feel the same way about any party with "Christian" in the name.
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