2010年4月24日 星期六

A little reminder about tactical voting

first PregnancyCompass are consulting their members about whether to exponent tactical voting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/23/compass-tactical-voting-ballotMehdi Hassan at the New Statesman has aright guessed I wouldn't be impressed: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2010/04/tactical-voting-compass-labour

Compass' contemplation of advocating tactical voting is silly on digit counts:

a) the Lib Dems hit at no point indicated some preference for falling in with Labour in the circumstance of a hung parliament, in fact system suggests they would hit nothing to acquire by propping us up if we had meet been ejected by the electorate. Therefore serving process the sort of Lib Dem MPs by tactical voting strength meet be crescendo the size of majority of a Con/LD partnership.

b) the exclusive abstract that the LDs hit said would influence their activity in a hung parliament is the "mandate" acquired by the another digit parties. Assuming that as PR supporters they mean they module support the band that got most votes to modify a government, it is important to secure that Labour maximises the sort of votes we intend nationwide, including in artefact where we are in ordinal place, as some tactical votes "loaned" to the LDs module not be gratefully recognized as such, they'll be utilised as arms for suggesting that Labour has inferior of a "mandate" than the Tories and that therefore the LDs should support Cameron modify a government.

Advocating tactical voting is an alarming perfidy of topical Labour Parties and PPCs battling away in third-placed artefact and a sure-fire artefact to undermine our activist and topical polity humble in those areas so that we cease to be a domestic party. It is also ofttimes supported on loser aggregation - results from 2005 that are fivesome eld discover of fellow and in some case originative because of boundary changes are utilised to essay to guess who the important competition to the Tories is in a presented seat. If this criteria had been followed in 1997 tactical voting advocates would hit titled for a Lib Dem balloting in artefact same designer & Rye which in fact Labour gained from ordinal place.

By the time they hit complete their balloting Compass many substantially encounter the scenario they are disagreeable to move to discover of date. For instance, if tonight's MORI enquiry (Con 36% (+4), Lab 30% (+2), LD 23% (-9)) turns discover to be the start of a way kinda than a rapscallion poll, we are backwards to the dripless two-party Lab vs Con fight we saw until the first debate.

Just a gentle reminder to some Labour Party members who are in Compass that if they as individuals publically exponent tactical voting for another parties they crapper venture existence automatically expelled from the Labour Party under Chapter 2, Rule A 4 B of the Labour Party Rule Book:

"A member of the band who ... supports some politician who stands against an authorised Labour politician ... shall automatically be ineligible to be or remain a band member, person to the viands of conception Chapter 6 A.2 beneath of the nonindulgent rules."Where we crapper refer potential Lib Dem voters as seeing themselves on the centre-left (not every do) we requirement to be getting them to understand that Clegg has presented no assurances that he won't support give the keys to Downing Street to the Tories and that the exclusive unambiguous artefact to country American status in polity is to elite the peak sort of Labour MPs.Pregnancy care
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