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After seeing the main party leaders on Question Time, my allegiance has changed slightly; Michael Howard came off the slimy one, behind even Tony Blair for apparent transparency of question-answering…or has Blair just practised his straight face for longer?…and Charles Kennedy was especially good, seeming honest and largely well-informed. His performance on the Lib Dems’ moral position on Iraq was especially hermetic. Sadly, he was less clear about the regional economic implications of his local income tax plans; would higher-earning, higher-cost-of-living Southerners take excessive flak? He didn’t know.

I’ve also re-taken the Who Should You Vote For? quiz after several weeks of thinking and discussing political things, and while better than my last, rather pallid set of results, they’re still a little uncertain. Though perhaps I should change my advice to voters to reflect my new, even-less-plausible ideal of a Lib Dem government heavily opposed by the Tories…

I was also midly pleased to find that my suspected systematic cruelty against Labour is, in fact, backed up entirely by my complete lack of support for their policies.

I got:

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Labour -25
	Conservative 8
	Liberal Democrat 19
	UKIP 14
	Green 9

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Fascinating.

Sadly, I’ve already cast my vote by post anyway, and a vote for the Liberals in the Wrekin is, I would contest, still a wasted vote.

I was also interested to read on The Beeb’s election coverage that Who Should You Vote For? was a viral marketing thing, netting some 200,000 quiz-takers to date from an initial mailing list of just 100.

Now all I need is something interesting on www.ktab.co.uk to virally market, and we can have that many visitors, too…

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005 16:56 | permalink | trackback