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[taimatsu]

Who'm I going to vote for next election? I know it's erroneous to look at one's vote for a local MP as having lots of effect on who the PM is, but bear with me here, it's not exactly unrelated.

I voted Labour last time. I'm not doing that again, the way things are looking now. If Blair isn't even listening to his own party, let alone the electorate, I'm just not going there (of course, if Blair is ousted befor ht next election,t higns could change, but hmm.)

I'm not green enough to be Green, and anyway the lunacies of local Greens have put me off. I vote Conservative when Lucifer starts a snowball fight. That leaves the Lib Dems. While I know some lovely Liberal Democrats (hi softfruit!) and they are commendably anti-war in stance, I have weird worries about voting for them. Partly my mother votes LD, and subconsciously I spend 99% of my time rebelling against my mother (no, really), not that that should be a factor, but it makes me feel odd. I don't know enough about their policies, and Charles Kennedy, besides sharing my surname (an undeniable point in his favour) seems so, well, ignorable. Yu can just forget he exists. Sorry, who was discussing again?

Anyway, you see my dilemma. I was a fairly convinced Labour voter, but I'm becoming unimpressed with their record on public services, and bemused by things like all these PFI deals (isn't that, like, nearly privatisation? And isn't that what Labour doesn't do?). Tube privatisation makes me worry. Anyway.

More for me than anything else - just a little pondering of political thingummies.

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[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I chose to vote Lib Dem after deciding voting labour in the last general election was a big mistake. I picked them because they have sensible policies on things like education and foxhunting and are also more interested in said policies than in joining in the Tory/Labour four-yearly mudslinging match.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

The last time Parliament debate hunting with dogs, three liberal democrat MPs spoke.

Norman Baker argued for a complete ban.
Alan Beith supported hunting.
Lembit Opik supported licensed hunts.

Just curious, umm, what's the policy?

> more interested in said policies than in
> joining in the Tory/Labour four-yearly
> mudslinging match.

'hmm'.