I will be voting Remain tomorrow and, if you are British, have a vote in the referendum and have any doubt about which way you should vote, you should do so too.
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During the last few days, the Conservative campaign in the current British general election has been busy raising the apparently awful spectre of the result being a British government controlled from behind the scenes by the Scottish National Party - and calling on voters to support the Conservatives to stop this happening. Unfortunately for them, ( Read more... )

European and local elections coming up - so one of my relatively rare politics and voting-related posts ( Read more... )

Having (as always) voted a straight Labour ticket yesterday in the London elections yesterday, I'm keeping more than half an eye on the counts for Mayor and Assembly - and I've noticed something ( Read more... )

Some thoughts I've been carrying around with me for weeks (usually while reacting "But... But..." to someone else's thoughts) and have finally got onto pixels.
( Half-myth 1: The government will no longer be funding most university teaching )

( Unfortunately, the LibDems probably had to go with the Tories... )

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I think I had already come across at least one reference to Voter Power, a website designed to show you (if you are a British voter) how much your vote is "worth" in the forthcoming general election. However, it was a post by the_magician that got me interested enough to look. My verdict? Nice graphics, they have calculated an impressive set of statistics - ( Read more... )

I generally try not to deviate into politics in this LJ - so my apologies to anyone who wasn't expecting it and doesn't want to read this (very long) entry, or just has no interest in British or European politics.

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