Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Misleading Lib Dem Euro election letter
We just got a letter from David Schmitz urging us to vote Lib Dem in the Euro elections in a few weeks. Really irritated by the fact that it has a large graphic proclaiming 'It's a two horse race' and then showing the % vote for the last Council elections.
This is infuratingly misleading - the European elections use a completely different voting system to the ones used for council elections. They use a proportional system (which last time I heard the Lib Dems favoured), so there is no two horse race - you can vote for which ever party you want and it could well make a difference. This is why people are so worried about the BNP possibly getting a London seat.
More information about these elections here
This is infuratingly misleading - the European elections use a completely different voting system to the ones used for council elections. They use a proportional system (which last time I heard the Lib Dems favoured), so there is no two horse race - you can vote for which ever party you want and it could well make a difference. This is why people are so worried about the BNP possibly getting a London seat.
More information about these elections here
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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I've got no beef with the content of the letter - I just think it is misleading to have a graphic (that takes up about a sixth of the page) with a banner saying it is "two horse race" in Haringey when this is UTTERLY irrelevant to the elections in question.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Though I live an extremely short stone's throw (a convenient mode of measurement) from the wearer of the Number 7 shirt on Labour's Euro-team, I know nothing whatever about her views on Lisbon Treaty ratification, referenda or -ums, whether 27 Commissioners are the most wieldy way of administering the Euro-project, whether economic migrants should be encouraged to contribute their skills across all 27 countries rather than just to a fortunate few, whether she sees the EU as more than a market, whether it should spread from the Atlantic to the Urals, the question of Turkish accession, whether Britain should be in the Euro-zone, whether it would make economic sense for Northern Ireland to share the euro-currency with the Republic even if Great Britain stays with sterling - not to mention her stance on the straight banana or whether MEPs and Commissioners should derail their own gravy train and rediscover the ideals of the founding fathers.
But, then, how would I know anything about Number 7's (or Haringey Labour's) idea(l)s about Europe - or about anything else, for that matter?
A week ago I got a totally uninformative A5 flyer through my door. It consisted mainly of a swirling Union Flag (probably to out-flag UKIP and BNP) and some vague reference to Cameron's Conservatives.
Today (Polling Day, 2.30pm) I had my first visit in at least ten years from someone claiming to represent Labour - a young recent blow-in, well-meaning but obviously still wet-behind-the-ears, with a clipboard and an innocent assumption that aforesaid Number 7 would gain my blanket 'X' simply because she's local. Poor lad - I think he was finally glad to escape after a 20-minute harangue from this relatively recently ex-Labour voter.
As I told the Labour tallymen (sorry, tallypersons) outside SHS polling station, like most other people I ended up voting from the most un-european of motives: not so much because of the circus of revolving doors in Downing Street, more due to local Labour's 'take-the-buggers-for-granted' brand of cynicism - a sort of warm-up exercise for next year's local scene. No, don't fret: I didn't vote UKIP, BNP, Libertas, Jury, Scargill, Christians or even Gladiators. Next time I vote for the 'W1 Bus Party'. Be truly PAROCHIAL, not PROVINCIAL.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Still not heard anything from the Conservatives so sod them. Wasn't there someone on here once called Justin ?
No party aparatchiki (from any party ) at the NHPS polling station so it's not only Labour who take the electorate for granted.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Justin can be found on Twitter these days.
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