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Coming elections
Jun. 28th, 2024 10:04 pmA few years ago here, I summarized some of my political preferences. In the UK, we have an election this Thursday so it's about time for me to notice more of what is going on, what the candidates and parties stand for.
My local constituency used to be Glasgow Central which was eliminated recently, we are now in Glasgow South West. The profile's around the same, Labour and the SNP are the plausible winners. At the moment, I might naturally tend toward the Liberal Democrats.
In the case of the US, since Trump's ascendancy I find the Republicans so repugnant that I am obliged to vote for whoever can keep them out of office. Still, it would have been agreeable if Biden hadn't seemed to lose some marbles since the State of the Union. Years ago, in Ohio I even felt safe to risk a Green vote, not now though. Of course, these days my votes count in Eastern Tennessee, where most contests are not close.
Here, in our constituency, I have to decide if either Labour or the SNP are unacceptable, or if I can vote for somebody less likely as an investment for the future. Naturally, the SNP have resumed their tedious tendency to consider every vote for them as being a vote for Scottish independence, rather than that maybe we are simply happy they handled the COVID crisis reasonably or somesuch.
As usual, it requires some work to figure out how the parties are interestingly different. The first level is typically an insultingly unhelpful
As it happens, now I have a busy few days that climax in a different kind of tedium at a consulate, so I'll circle back to the election when necessary. And, goodness, the polling cards have grown since they needed to include ID requirements.
My local constituency used to be Glasgow Central which was eliminated recently, we are now in Glasgow South West. The profile's around the same, Labour and the SNP are the plausible winners. At the moment, I might naturally tend toward the Liberal Democrats.
In the case of the US, since Trump's ascendancy I find the Republicans so repugnant that I am obliged to vote for whoever can keep them out of office. Still, it would have been agreeable if Biden hadn't seemed to lose some marbles since the State of the Union. Years ago, in Ohio I even felt safe to risk a Green vote, not now though. Of course, these days my votes count in Eastern Tennessee, where most contests are not close.
Here, in our constituency, I have to decide if either Labour or the SNP are unacceptable, or if I can vote for somebody less likely as an investment for the future. Naturally, the SNP have resumed their tedious tendency to consider every vote for them as being a vote for Scottish independence, rather than that maybe we are simply happy they handled the COVID crisis reasonably or somesuch.
As usual, it requires some work to figure out how the parties are interestingly different. The first level is typically an insultingly unhelpful
these are the shiny thingswith rather less
and this is how they will be caused and funded. Admittedly, in the case of some of the more right-leaning parties at the moment, their definition of shiny things already somewhat disqualifies them.
As it happens, now I have a busy few days that climax in a different kind of tedium at a consulate, so I'll circle back to the election when necessary. And, goodness, the polling cards have grown since they needed to include ID requirements.
