Links and Quizes
International gambler and philanthropist George Soros famously said "Networking is not working" and whether it is true or not in business there *are* some problems with the web based resources of election briefings.
There are dozens of interesting sites. Some produce figures in black and white indicating your representative's variance from your own views and allows you to compare that with the colective variance of the parties pretending to each seat.
Some remarkable results can arise. There is no careful nuancing. It can be a case of garbage in garbage out. So if it seems wrong work out why that is.
We can even submit to a quiz taking just a few minutes and have our personal politics analysed and compared on two axes - one conventional left-right, the other apparently the trainspotters' scale where the issues may signify a little less.
Here, in no particular order, are some to play with :
www.notapathetic.com
Where you can share your innermost feelings as a not apathetic non voter.
www.publicwhip.com
www.theyworkforyou.com
www.writetothem.com
Some of the standard resources on who voted what when. Hansard is more informative. And a Hansard-digest which pulled out the divisions would be a real boon. Is there such a thing?
www.publicwhip.com/election.php
Is a little game where your rep's record on some cherry picked issues is compared with your views. There are a couple of drawbacks. Constant oppositionists in other parties can come out too well based on their 'say anything, do anything' opposition status. And it is not smart enough to excuse absences or to nuance which vote on a particular issue is the best signifier. Finally it doesn't include lots of lower profile matters, not controversial for Labour supporters, but which the opposition also opposed. Like Minimum Wage, secretly redistributive budget bills, that sort of thing.
www.politicalsurvey2005.com
Fun. Where do you lie on the political spectrum as a whole? I had 0.0% significantly to the left of me and about 1.2% as left on the main political scale. A few percent on the other scale. Sometimes you'd want the questions to be different. Should Britain be more like America or Germany/France? Answer : Finland. The Guardian still came out as far and away the newspaper on the left for people like me.
www.labouragainstthewar.org.uk
An important and 9/2001 established group for Labour and TU lefties. Too low profile. Arguably has not spread net widely enough from the Campaign Group core. Wonder in the colouring of the upgraded logo. My contribution to the cause.
www.labourleftbriefing.org.uk/links.html
www.labourleftbriefing.org.uk/special.html
First is a good links page for TUs, Labour left and independent socialist organisations, and a spectrum Labour ginger groups from Catalyst to LRC.
Second is a run down of LLB's list of star Labour MPs who've got things right all of the time (by the time of writing at least). Good to see Tony Lloyd in the 30 or so. Also a list of the most threatened anti-war Labour MPs.
www.redpepper.org.uk
Daily election blog. Questions about Respect. And Tariq Ali's Tory-helping nonsense.
www.pledgebank.com
Think this is vote swapping swingers site.
www.backingblair.com
Looks like a Tory front with a ruthless anyone-but-Labour streak, often calling for votes for right wing Tories over left wing, anti-war Labour. Tossers.
home.freeuk.net/clpd
Possibly the Sedgefield Blair Must Go portal. Will find the real front door.
http://www.keysforsedgefield.org.uk
This is the Reg Keys site anyway.
www.tactical-voting.co.uk
www.tacticalvoter.net
www.keepthetoriesout.co.uk
www.stophague.com
www.torywatch.org.uk
www.votedorset.org
These do what it says on the tin. Last is Billy Bragg's. I interviewed Billy c 1984 for City Life and remember standing on the roof of GO! Mansions or whatever it was with Kevin Cummins trying to capture the de Niro within. Possibly BB's first magazine cover? A couple of years later it was a pinky and perky style interview as the batteries let us down easily, without packing up, on Red Wedge I. And finally a great Red Wedge II tour with Luis Melia Godoy and Billy. Sold Out in a good way.
www.ICMresearch.co.uk
www.nop.co.uk
www.mori.co.uk
www.gallup.com
www.ukelect.co.uk
www.fuzzymath.co.uk
Pollsters and the like ...
Will try and switch these to click through links later on.
Broken ones can be reported to me at idea@easy.com.
There are dozens of interesting sites. Some produce figures in black and white indicating your representative's variance from your own views and allows you to compare that with the colective variance of the parties pretending to each seat.
Some remarkable results can arise. There is no careful nuancing. It can be a case of garbage in garbage out. So if it seems wrong work out why that is.
We can even submit to a quiz taking just a few minutes and have our personal politics analysed and compared on two axes - one conventional left-right, the other apparently the trainspotters' scale where the issues may signify a little less.
Here, in no particular order, are some to play with :
www.notapathetic.com
Where you can share your innermost feelings as a not apathetic non voter.
www.publicwhip.com
www.theyworkforyou.com
www.writetothem.com
Some of the standard resources on who voted what when. Hansard is more informative. And a Hansard-digest which pulled out the divisions would be a real boon. Is there such a thing?
www.publicwhip.com/election.php
Is a little game where your rep's record on some cherry picked issues is compared with your views. There are a couple of drawbacks. Constant oppositionists in other parties can come out too well based on their 'say anything, do anything' opposition status. And it is not smart enough to excuse absences or to nuance which vote on a particular issue is the best signifier. Finally it doesn't include lots of lower profile matters, not controversial for Labour supporters, but which the opposition also opposed. Like Minimum Wage, secretly redistributive budget bills, that sort of thing.
www.politicalsurvey2005.com
Fun. Where do you lie on the political spectrum as a whole? I had 0.0% significantly to the left of me and about 1.2% as left on the main political scale. A few percent on the other scale. Sometimes you'd want the questions to be different. Should Britain be more like America or Germany/France? Answer : Finland. The Guardian still came out as far and away the newspaper on the left for people like me.
www.labouragainstthewar.org.uk
An important and 9/2001 established group for Labour and TU lefties. Too low profile. Arguably has not spread net widely enough from the Campaign Group core. Wonder in the colouring of the upgraded logo. My contribution to the cause.
www.labourleftbriefing.org.uk/links.html
www.labourleftbriefing.org.uk/special.html
First is a good links page for TUs, Labour left and independent socialist organisations, and a spectrum Labour ginger groups from Catalyst to LRC.
Second is a run down of LLB's list of star Labour MPs who've got things right all of the time (by the time of writing at least). Good to see Tony Lloyd in the 30 or so. Also a list of the most threatened anti-war Labour MPs.
www.redpepper.org.uk
Daily election blog. Questions about Respect. And Tariq Ali's Tory-helping nonsense.
www.pledgebank.com
Think this is vote swapping swingers site.
www.backingblair.com
Looks like a Tory front with a ruthless anyone-but-Labour streak, often calling for votes for right wing Tories over left wing, anti-war Labour. Tossers.
home.freeuk.net/clpd
Possibly the Sedgefield Blair Must Go portal. Will find the real front door.
http://www.keysforsedgefield.org.uk
This is the Reg Keys site anyway.
www.tactical-voting.co.uk
www.tacticalvoter.net
www.keepthetoriesout.co.uk
www.stophague.com
www.torywatch.org.uk
www.votedorset.org
These do what it says on the tin. Last is Billy Bragg's. I interviewed Billy c 1984 for City Life and remember standing on the roof of GO! Mansions or whatever it was with Kevin Cummins trying to capture the de Niro within. Possibly BB's first magazine cover? A couple of years later it was a pinky and perky style interview as the batteries let us down easily, without packing up, on Red Wedge I. And finally a great Red Wedge II tour with Luis Melia Godoy and Billy. Sold Out in a good way.
www.ICMresearch.co.uk
www.nop.co.uk
www.mori.co.uk
www.gallup.com
www.ukelect.co.uk
www.fuzzymath.co.uk
Pollsters and the like ...
Will try and switch these to click through links later on.
Broken ones can be reported to me at idea@easy.com.
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