Green Party has decent digital policies. But I live in a Labour stronghold in East London where there's a risk of BNP returning MPs in up to 4 boroughs. I'm not sure whether to vote strategically to try to keep the Tories/BNP out or to vote Green. BNP is fielding candidates in my Borough but it isn't a stronghold so I think we'll be OK there.
So, it'll be the Greens. If my fellow Tower Hamlets residents are masochistic enough to vote in the Tories, there's not much I can do about it. I think the alleged socialists have been taking the piss for too long on the basis that we're too scared of the Tories to vote them out. BTW, Grauniad has a thing about people being falsely accused last time the media corporations started targeting individuals: http://tinyurl.com/y3qvkr3 Paula* * / www.fossbox.org.uk pa...@fossbox.org.uk Tel: 020 7481 8479 Skype: bastubis / jim.came...@buhlersortex.com wrote: > Andy: > >> 189 MPs voted Yes (Aye), 47 voted No (Noe). >> > > The majority of whom weren't present at the debate. You might very well think > the bill was railroaded through by whatever MPs the whips could round up and > herd into the chamber to vote the party line without even hearing it; I > couldn't possibly comment. > > >> There are 646 MPs so most of them couldn't even be bothered to vote. >> > > And some 20,000 letters and emails in opposition, according to 38degrees. On > average, that's more than 30 each. Surely there's only so many times you can > send out a form letter full of platitudes before you start to think, maybe > people /don't want/ this thing to pass? > > So what can we do now? Donate to the Pirate Party (unfortunately, there is no > pirate candidate in my constituency), donate to the Open Rights Group, email > our candidates, buttonhole them when they come round canvassing ... anything > else? > > I was somewhat heartened to see that the front page article in today's Metro > was strongly critical (in so far as a newspaper article can be in these days > of journalistic "balance") both of the bill and the appallingly undemocratic > way it was rammed through Parliament. > > jim > -- > Jim Cameron > Software Engineer > > Buhler Sortex Limited > Research and Development Department > 20 Atlantis Avenue > London E16 2BF > Registered in England No. 434274 > T +44(0)20 7055 7607 > F +44(0)20 7055 7701 > > Mail to: jim.came...@buhlersortex.com > www.buhlersortex.com > > This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential, > may be legally privileged and is designated exclusively > for the intended recipient. Access by any other person is > not authorised. Any disclosure of this e-mail or of names > of persons mentioned therein as well as any storing, > copying, distribution and dissemination is strictly prohibited. > > If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately > delete this e-mail and notify the sender by phone or by e-mail. > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
