Game on: is this the critical election?

[matgb]

OK, when I talked about Labour getting wiped out in 2010 a couple years back, I was semi-joking and being deliberately provocative. Or maybe I was just being prescient. Email from YouGov: Our latest daily polling figures for The Sun (fieldwork 15th-16th April) are

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[theweaselking]

OpenID refuses to accept me unless I give it admin rights. Fuck that.

So, comment here:

"So, the "Labour" party are facist bastards. That's not new. What's the *DOWNSIDE* to them beign completely wiped out and their pathetic fuckwit supporters being absorbed by the National Socialists, again?"

[matgb]

Don't know what's up with OpenID, shouldn't be asking for admin rights; the UI is still a bit crap though, better'n LJ's but that says nothing.

Downside is that a lot of Labour supporters aren't happy with the authoritarian faction (who started out fairly liberal but are basically centrists who follow the polls), and some of them would be good at reclaiming the party after a GE. They've got some damn fine MPs, and my party doesn't want to become the default party of the left (some do, I don't, need a proper Liberal party over here).

Also, the BNP are bad enough, and frequently the BNP do well in traditional Labour areas because they're fighting as the only alternative (I was partially wrong about who's voting for them, see "posts Mat never wrote passim").

I'd rather fix the voting system so there's space for a wider range of actual parties, etc.

[theweaselking]

It didn't actually want real admin rights, it was just demanding that I allow more and more scripts on various sites *after* I'd already got the popup from Livejournal saying "do you want to share your ID with this site?"

And, really, I surf with scripts off *for a reason*.

[matgb]

Weird; I'll report it to support on DW, but pretty sure it'll be LJ based scripts.

You've seen they're running a new link redirect script, right? Scans every outgoing link on mouseover, reporting both locations to an off site server :-(