Yes I voted
May. 7th, 2015 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonemagpieFor those wondering which way I voted, and why, I don't mind saying. Despite my immense disappointment at them letting things slide, Lib Dem.
Why? First, I dislike the Tories and Labour equally - and for a lot of similar reasons, actually. (No rational foreign policy, snooper's charters, invasions of privacy, and the general new caste of bankers' friends going straight into government from Uni without life/work experience in the real world first.) - Vote Cameron, get Osborne and IDS. Vote Miliband, get Balls and Harman. None of those options appeal. Obviously voting UKIP is out of the question, so that left (in this constituency) Lib Dem or Green.
That made it a numbers game. We're in a roughly tied seat - 43% Tory, 37% Labour, neither of whom I'd vote for - with UKIP on 10%, LDs on 7% and Greens on 3%. If, as was always likely, it's going to be hung parliament, that means I want to avoid the risk of a nightmare anybody/UKIP coalition. That means a vote for the Greens will be wasted, but a Lib Dem vote, in this constituency at least, *might* help in some tiny way to keep the LDs level with UKIP, and deny UKIP the chance to be coalition power-brokers.
So, tactical anti-UKIP vote for the LDs it is... Not that I expect it to make a difference, given how slaughtered the LDs will get
Why? First, I dislike the Tories and Labour equally - and for a lot of similar reasons, actually. (No rational foreign policy, snooper's charters, invasions of privacy, and the general new caste of bankers' friends going straight into government from Uni without life/work experience in the real world first.) - Vote Cameron, get Osborne and IDS. Vote Miliband, get Balls and Harman. None of those options appeal. Obviously voting UKIP is out of the question, so that left (in this constituency) Lib Dem or Green.
That made it a numbers game. We're in a roughly tied seat - 43% Tory, 37% Labour, neither of whom I'd vote for - with UKIP on 10%, LDs on 7% and Greens on 3%. If, as was always likely, it's going to be hung parliament, that means I want to avoid the risk of a nightmare anybody/UKIP coalition. That means a vote for the Greens will be wasted, but a Lib Dem vote, in this constituency at least, *might* help in some tiny way to keep the LDs level with UKIP, and deny UKIP the chance to be coalition power-brokers.
So, tactical anti-UKIP vote for the LDs it is... Not that I expect it to make a difference, given how slaughtered the LDs will get