Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-3-2010

[andrewducker]

• Science: Another excellent reason to ditch Labour on Thursday
  (tags: science politics uk)
• Compare your opinions with those of your local MPs.
  (tags: elections quiz)
• S.China export hubs set for minimum wage rise
  This should have interesting effects on the global economy
  (tags: economics china wages)
• Conservative MP who shaped many of their policies believes gay people are possessed by demons
  (tags: conservatives politics religion christianity gay homosexuality)

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Given the MP I'm voting for isn't actually on that quiz I'm not sure how useful it can possibly be...

[andrewducker]

I assume that not everbody responds. I don't have the Tory candidate in my list for some reason. I do have the Lib Dem.

I'm Edinburgh East - are you Edinburgh North?

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Edinburgh North & Leith, yeah.

*Emails the Lib Dem candidate*

He's going to be very, very sorry that he replied to me using his hotmail account...

[matgb]

Nah; they have to use personal accounts during a GE, the Parliament accounts are locked out.

But yeah, Andrew's right, said it elsewhere, a large number of candidates are swamped with this sort of questionnaire, and if they've not heard of the organisation, they might not respond, they probably don't have time to respond.

This one is actually really good though; I'm deliberately promoting it as my local LAbour candidate hasn't responded, and it's a 3-way fight.

Annoyingly, my Tory candidate has answered a lot of them in a very liberal manner, which is unexpected, but at least I won't hate him if he wins. I just don't want him to.