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How to keep the Tories out - best placed progressive candidate to vote for guide.
After balloting its members over the last week the Labour pressure group Compass, today put out a call for tactical voting to stop a Conservative victory.
Compass is now calling on every progressive voter to back the Labour candidate wherever Labour can win. But if Labour stands no chance against the Tory candidate it makes sense that the best placed progressive candidate is backed by every progressive voter. 72% of members backed the call for tactical voting with only 14% against.
To help you decide who is the best placed progressive candidate to vote for, Compass has produced a guide. It shows where you should back the Labour candidate in a large number of the 116 top Tory target seats. But if Labour stands no chance against the Tories, it makes sense that the best-placed Labour or Liberal Democrat candidate is backed by every progressive voter.
And just remember that Britain needs change – it doesn't need the Tories.
Handy guide here
http://clients.squareeye.com/uploads/compass/Torytargetsword.doc.doc
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/30/tories-tactical-voting-compass-guide
http://www.compassonline.org.uk/news/item.asp?n=9314
Well I for one will be voting for the party most likely to keep the Tories out.
Compass is now calling on every progressive voter to back the Labour candidate wherever Labour can win. But if Labour stands no chance against the Tory candidate it makes sense that the best placed progressive candidate is backed by every progressive voter. 72% of members backed the call for tactical voting with only 14% against.
To help you decide who is the best placed progressive candidate to vote for, Compass has produced a guide. It shows where you should back the Labour candidate in a large number of the 116 top Tory target seats. But if Labour stands no chance against the Tories, it makes sense that the best-placed Labour or Liberal Democrat candidate is backed by every progressive voter.
And just remember that Britain needs change – it doesn't need the Tories.
Handy guide here
http://clients.squareeye.com/uploads/compass/Torytargetsword.doc.doc
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/30/tories-tactical-voting-compass-guide
http://www.compassonline.org.uk/news/item.asp?n=9314
Well I for one will be voting for the party most likely to keep the Tories out.
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well im shocked at your decision!
i however will not be doing something this petty and will be voting for the party who are best suited to lead the country.
But does it need labour, a party that will tear its self apart and collapse like a dying star when Brown is removed as leader due to Mandyslime,Blair pact to remove him in favour of Millibeast. Seriously how long do you believe labour will last as a minority government?
Labour used to mean something,not anymore when lying corrupt unelected filth like Mandleslime have more power that an elected labour MP, labour has forgot what it stands for.
Finally come off the fence eh?
I too will be tactically voting, but not based on what Compass say.
Having checked they dont actually say much of use anyway other than results last time and whether the tories are targetting the seat. Nothing to take into account LD surge and no predictions of likely popularity - for mine they've just put NEW as the results from last time due to boundary changes.
So are you going to tell us where you are placing your cross on Thursday.
I am not interested in who the Guardian or Times are backing - we need pauli to provide the lead!:D
PS I live in a Labour seat with the Lib Dems in second place - so I can vote with my head and heart. Others are not so lucky!
We could be looking at a Cameron majority govt which 62% of those voting (and 80% of Britons) did not vote for.
Which was pretty much the result of the 2005 election.
Labour got a comfortable majority with 37% of the vote on a 61% turnout which was 22.5% of the electorate.
But these are different times - a recession, huge cuts in services and spending planned which will hit the poor most. People rather brushed off the unfairness of the result of 2005.
This time people are a lot more unsettled and angry. If we end up with the Tories relying on the DUP for their majority I dread to think where we are going to be in a few months.
That would mean that more people wanted it than wanted the last Labour government.
Or that 60%+ of people didn't want either (60% is a majority last time I looked)!
The turnout will almost certainly be up from 2005 as it's closer election, so there's a very good chance that the Conservatives in 2010 will get more votes than Labour did in 2005 yet get a smaller majority (if one at all).
What is your point? The last time that the winning party got a majority of the vote was in 1931, the only time it has happened since the 19th century.
This discussion is for a thread on alternative voting systems, not to be used to somehow claim that the Conservatives wouldn't have a mandate over the country.
Last time Labour and Conservatives were both on around 16K each (Labour's 37 majority is the smallest in the country), with the Lib Dems on 6.5K
I'm torn here. I don't want the Conservatives to win, so common sense dictates I should vote Labour. However, I also want to register, quite clearly, that my vote is for the Lib Dems and not for Labour (as I'm sure the party would claim), and to highlight the absurdity of the fptp system.
But I want the Tories in
And I want the Tories defeated - so I agree with Pauli.
If you help keep the Tories out you could be a Goody Two Shoes or even a Friend or Foe!!