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Thursday April 28, 2005
Car lands on upper floor of house
I wonder what sort of accident form they will send to the house that jumped in front of this car.
Note it is not a white van.
( Apr 28 2005, 05:16:01 PM BST ) Permalink Trackback
Tactical Voting
Just for those who had not heard we are in the approach to a General Election in the U.K. I live in one of the safest seats in the country where the sitting MP got 49% of the vote last time round. With the other two candidates splitting the rest of the vote.
Anyway I just got this email from a friend (I've removed some details to hide the senders identity):
Is tactical voting morally acceptable,
would you say?
I can't decide: do I vote LibDem - and in XXXX
they are currently 2nd and stand a chance - to register my
displeasure with Bliar?
Or do I vote Labour, despite not
liking them, so as to avoid any possibility of the Cons getting back
in nationally? Labour losing XXXX to LibDem could mean that they
don't have enough seats.
Leaving aside whether the politics of the parties, is if you support Party X and don't want Party Y to form a government is it right to vote tactically for Party Z if they are the only one to realistically challenge Party Y in your seat?
My answer is yes. In the first past the post system we have tactical voting is entirely justified. However on the precise question unless the Tories could win the seat there is no issue. If the Lib Dems were to win the seat it moves us closer to a hung parliament which would be a very different thing than a Tory win.
( Apr 28 2005, 12:46:43 PM BST ) Permalink Trackback
ADSL upgrade
I just got the go ahead to upgrade my BT ADSL line to 2Mbits/sec which only involves having another 12months contract. The problem is that the website is too busy to let me doit:
Which
is slightly irritating. However what I really want is an upgrade to
DSL so that the upload speed is more then the rather pathetic 256k.
Uploading photos at that speed just hurts.
( Apr 28 2005, 10:48:50 AM BST ) Permalink
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