Just joined the Green Party – feelis like a weight has lifted

Rent controls

Will mean massive numbers of people who need housing cannot find any. If the government want to control rents they should build more social housing and stop relying on the private sector to do that job for them.

I disagree, train fares have caps, why not something even more important?

Limiting annual rent increases sounds fair to me.

Vote. Informed.

I’ve already revealed my vested interest in the return if rent control, but it is dealing with the symptom (rising private rental costs) rather than the cause (lack of affordable housing).

Still, if it pays my mortgage….

There should be a matrix of party policy v key issues- blue,red,yellow,green,purple? on the y axis, nhs, environment, education, transport, immigration, tax etc on the x axis.

Keep it simple, everyone would vote.

Have a look at jonoh’s link – http://voteforpolicies.org.uk/ – if you want to see how your views fit with the different parties. http://www.politicalcompass.org is pretty good for that, too.

id vote green if their science policies; animal testing, gmo and nuclear werent so backwards

The other thing for me is trusting them to keep us competitive in an ever more challenging global economy. If we’re too idealistic and too ahead of our time we’ll run out of money – we need a stronger balance of trade to pay the bills.

Beaten to the Political Compass. ^^^^^

http://voteforpolicies.org.uk/%5B/url%5D has confirmed what I thought, although to get a 100% score against all categories was a surprise. That’s not to say I fully agree with every statement, but the ones I selected were the best compromise.

That’s the point I think. No one political party will have the policies you totally agree with, it will be a compromise.

Treehugger, BTW.

Splitter!

chiefgrooveguru – Member

The other thing for me is trusting them to keep us competitive in an ever more challenging global economy. If we’re too idealistic and too ahead of our time we’ll run out of money – we need a stronger balance of trade to pay the bills.

the green party won’t be winning the GE, but a vote for them is a message to the other parties that there are votes in green/social policies.

if you’ve got lefty tendencies, voting green is roughly twelfty-bijillion times more useful than not voting because you can’t find a party that exactly agrees with how you think the country should be run.

Chiefgrooveguru, IANAB*, but i have some family/inlaws who work in refuse/recycling in brighton, from what they tell me it would seem to be more a case of Brighton&Hove being a lot more honest about what they can and do genuinely recycle than we hear from more optimistic local authorities.
(*I Am Not A Binman)

this is true. there is no (or limited) market for much that is recycled. Brighton and hove have stated not to recycle certain items as all they can do is landfill it anyway its stated on the bit of paper you get with your collection times i think. or i looked it up. but its definately written somewhere cos i was annoyed too.

I’ve no bloody idea who to vote for. i quite like our local tory mp – he’s active and appears fairly level headed BUT i cant vote for him as i dont agree with the governmental policies.

we are in a tory haven though so i doubt it`ll matter who i vote for…. i will vote though.

The problem here is the our local MP is labour but very good on a local front. He is vocal and active on local issues and seems to really care about his constituents.

I however do not wish to vote for the larger picture of the Labour Party. I voted Green in the last local elections after being let down by the Lib Dems in the coalition and finding I agreed with more of the Green policies than any other party.

I like the option of “none of the above” on the ballot sheet as I feel voting is my duty (FFS people died so I could vote) but I’m finding it harder to work out who to vote for.

I like some of the Green’s policies but I di not think for one minute they would be a good party to have as a majority government. The country would be economically ruined in no time.

That said I think they would make a fine coalition partner to keep Labour or the Conservatives honest.

Trouble is they would find themselves in the same political wilderness Clegg does now in 5 years time if they did end up in a coalition.

Just did the Vote for Policies survey linked earlier on.

Turns out I’m mostly Green then equal Red and Yelllow. Blue last. It would seem my constituency feels the same way.

Really interesting but time consuming as you do have to read all the policies, like you should when thinking of voting!

I was 50% labour, and 10% the rest, including supporting the BNP education policy! 😳

Be interesting to do that again with up to date policies

allthepies – Member

deadlydarcy said » Or Glück 34.

Is that a knockoff Glock.[/quote]

😆 1911 is also a good made btw.

deadlydarcy – Member
Sorry, think I meant Glïck.

😆 😆 How about SIG? I like SIG too.

cheekyboy – Member
Watermelons and zombie maggots

😆 😆 😆 Melons … hmmm … juicy melons …

Lifer – Member
Something about lentils?

Lentils are good. Cheap protein. Less meat is required.

but time consuming

doesn’t take as much time as most people spend complaining about political parties though 😉

I followed the links on the Vote for Policies survey to see the results in my constituency and then the results from the last GE. 28% Green, 20% Labour, 16% LibDem, 13% Tory, 11% UKIP & 10% BNP on the surveys but the GE result was 46% Tory, 41% LibDem & 7% Labour.

There was no Green candidate last time around and the survey results will be biased because it’s a Guardian survey. Not too many dyed in the wool Torys are going to be reading that rag.

I have never tied myself to a party but 50% lab, 25% BNP and 25% UKIP is both incongruous and scary. 😯

Admittedly it was speed reading. 50% to fruitcakes???

I have to admit as a lefty, the greens may be getting my vote this time around. Yes they have some bat shit crazy ideas, but so do the rest of them!! Theirs don’t seem as bat shit crazy in a harmful way.

at this rate Farage will be losing Thanet to a fictional pub landlord.

Oh and whilst we are on tired overused stuff on stw…. Wunnundred! 😀