Tomorrow I’ll be exercising my democratic right to vote in the Scottish Parliament general election 2011 and the UK-wide Alternative Vote referendum.
Still not 100% decided on who I’ll vote for tomorrow—having voted for the Liberal Democrats in every election since I’ve been eligible to vote; voting for David Steel, Simon Hughes, Charles Kennedy, some-bloke-in-Edinburgh-who-wasn’t-that-famous, and Sir Menzies Campbell… and yes, I do know those were for Westminster seats—I do feel a little uneasy about voting for the LibDems because of the Conservative-LibDem alliance in London.
That said, and as Fr Kelvin pointed out in a blog post today, I should be voting on policies not personalities or to ‘punish’ Nick Clegg for a decision with which I disagree.
So I turned to Scottish Vote Compass to see what it could discern about me. And surprisingly it just about got it right:
- Scottish Liberal Democrats
- 23%
- Scottish Greens
- 22%
- Scottish Labour
- 20%
- Scottish National Party
- 0%
- Scottish Conservatives
- -12%
That’s a pretty close result with the top three there: 23%, 22% and 20%, which I guess is why I am in favour of the Alternative Vote system.
I tried that voting compass thing too and the only party to get a negative score for me was the tories. Greens scored quite well for me, which is odd as I’ve never considered voting for them, and still don’t.