Thursday 6th May

[fleetfootmike]

I'm sure someone's expecting this post, so...

Vote, folks. It's your right.

(readers from countries who do not have an election today need not apply; may contain nuts; candidates measured by volume, nit weight; the value of your vote may go up as well as down (but is worthless if you don't use it).)

Comments

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Already voted (Postal, recovering from a fracture, again...)

Looked at the list here, and there wasn't really any choice. Well, the sitting Labour MP is a decent bloke, and I'd be happy to see him elected, but four right-wing authoritarian parties on the ballot is getting a bit excessive.

Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want,
So tell me what you want, what you really really want,
I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want,
So tell me what you want, what you really really want,
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really
really really wanna zigazig ha.


[GRAMS] Footsteps receding into distance. Creaking door. BLAM! Music stops.


And if the BNP come around with their imaginary Spitfire, I have an imaginary Anarchist fighter squadron flying CAP. With an AWACS Zeppelin.

(No, this election campaign hasn't driven me crazy. Yet.)

[keristor.livejournal.com]

"We're willing to vote as you want us to vote / When you do what we want you to do."

It is almost certain that my vote will be wasted anyway -- last election Tory 49%, LD 27%, Labour 18%, UKIP 5% (and the Tory percentage has risen for the last two elections). Unless the sitting MP drops dead (or resigns) today there is no chance of my vote doing anything at all.

(I will vote, but still have no idea which way, I dislike all of them. "A plaque on all their houses"; one of those blue ones saying "Freedom died here" and the date...)

[bardling.livejournal.com]

nit weight
Oooh, now I'm wondering what knit weight measuring looks like. "Tear or cut ballot into narrow, even strips, then knit up with needle size of your choice..." *grins*

I shall go vote, yes.

[filklore-on-lj.livejournal.com]

I have always had a knack of predicting the date of an election, by planning to be away at the time. I am currently in Brighton, on a trip planned back in November, and it came as no surprise to me when they announced a May election.

For this reason, I have a postal vote, so my vote has been already cast.

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

"some candidates may have settled in transit?"

I'm off to do mine in a minute, and face a truly horrible choice. The best potential MP, *by far*, is a colour that I've never ticked in my life. I am facing a battle between what I know would be the right decision for the area and 18 years of my mother quoting Nye Bevin and Keir Hardie...

*sigh*

If only there was a nice Green Party Candidate I could vote for!

[tig-b.livejournal.com]

I voted ..
but would have loved a 're-open nominations' option.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Done! My... [COUNTS ON FINGERS] ...fourth?... vote in my lifetime for the Clegglets Dribbly Lemingcrats. This time with a hell of a lot more hope of it doing some good: Our current incumbent is a yellow-bellyDripping Lemoncart, and jolly good MP, but he only won by a gnats whisker last time and of course the Tory voters in the area will be out in force this year to try and get him out... [FINGERS CROSSED]

[djbp.livejournal.com]

voted first thing this morning

[patoadam]

Could someone kindly explain to this American why Labour is expected to get about twice as many seats as the Liberal Democrats, even though they are expected to get about the same number of votes?