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    Telegraph Vote Match

    The Telegraph has an interesting online questionnaire, where you give your choices about a number of policies, rate their importance, and it will tell you how much each party agrees with you.

    I got Lab and Con only 35% agreement, LibDem 40%, and Green 61%. Weird. I should have thought LibDems.

    Then I did it again giving myself a Scotland postcode. I think I gave broadly the same answers to the same questions (I was never tempted by a Don't Know) but I also got the Scottish questions.

    Now, Lab on 36%, Con 44%, LibDem 52%, SNP 53%, Scottish Greens 58%.

    Quite a swing to Con and Lib by going north of the border. SO: what are the Scottish Tories and Libs offering that they're not telling southerners about?

    #2
    Actually thats pretty good. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/elec...election1404am

    I got

    56% BNP
    53% Tory
    40% Labour
    40% UKIP
    17% Green
    13% Liberal
    What happens in General, stays in General.
    You know what they say about assumptions!

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      #3
      Some of the questions are too vague to answer in any meaningful way. For example, "People convicted of crimes who were not born in this country should be deported."

      Are they saying that somebody born in the Republic of Ireland who gets done for careless driving should be deported? What about an eighteen-year-old, born to English parents while they were living in France, having lived here since he was six months old, who gets done for smack dealing - should he be deported to France? Or how about a seventy-year-old who moved here from, say, the West Indies when he was twenty, founded and ran a successful business for forty-five years, then gets done for causing criminal damage to his neighbour's leylandii in an overheated boundary dispute?

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        #4
        Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
        Some of the questions are too vague to answer in any meaningful way. For example, "People convicted of crimes who were not born in this country should be deported."

        Are they saying that somebody born in the Republic of Ireland who gets done for careless driving should be deported? What about an eighteen-year-old, born to English parents while they were living in France, having lived here since he was six months old, who gets done for smack dealing - should he be deported to France? Or how about a seventy-year-old who moved here from, say, the West Indies when he was twenty, founded and ran a successful business for forty-five years, then gets done for causing criminal damage to his neighbour's leylandii in an overheated boundary dispute?


        I bet all your mugs line up just so...
        What happens in General, stays in General.
        You know what they say about assumptions!

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          #5
          Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post


          I bet all your mugs line up just so...
          I bet all your mugs are chipped..... two of them are under your bed growing penecillin.... a third is in the bathroom next to the bog 1/2 filled with cold coffee and topped up with splashed back Pish....... and the one on your bedside table is full of screwed up tissues......

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            #6
            I got,

            British National Party: 72%
            UK Independence Party: 67%
            Conservative Party: 49%
            Labour Party: 44%
            Liberal Democrats: 43%

            I'm no racist!

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              #7
              Similar to this?
              Lambrini Socialist:
              try http://www.votematch.co.uk - it asks you a few questions, then matches you up with the candidates that are most in line with your beliefs. i only found it after i voted, and i wish i'd consulted it before, as it would've certainly changed my second choice if not my first.
              EDIT: Yep - same thing I was thinking of.

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                #8
                Originally posted by realityhack View Post
                Similar to this?
                It's the same mob, they've just managed to get the Torygraph to host their meaningless questions and give them some free publicity - oh, and the chance to harvest a load of email addresses for their mailing list.

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                  #9
                  Scottish National Party: 55%
                  Liberal Democrats: 51%
                  Conservative Party: 49%
                  Scottish Green Party: 49%
                  Labour Party: 45%

                  Strange cos I'm definitley not a nationalist
                  Me, me, me...

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Drewster View Post
                    I bet all your mugs are chipped..... two of them are under your bed growing penecillin.... a third is in the bathroom next to the bog 1/2 filled with cold coffee and topped up with splashed back Pish....... and the one on your bedside table is full of screwed up tissues......
                    Why would I be staying at AtW's bedsit?
                    What happens in General, stays in General.
                    You know what they say about assumptions!

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