{"id":88,"date":"2005-04-15T16:29:48","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T16:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=88"},"modified":"2005-04-15T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T16:29:48","slug":"who-should-you-vote-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/15\/who-should-you-vote-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Should You Vote For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/newlogo.jpg?w=1165\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Who Should You Vote For?\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Who should I vote for?<\/h1>\n<h2>Your expected outcome:<\/h2>\n<p>Liberal Democrat<\/p>\n<h2>Your actual outcome:<\/h2>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-right: black 2px solid;\" height=\"20\" align=\"right\" valign=\"center\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Labour -12 <\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tiny_grey_light.gif?resize=24%2C20\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"20\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" height=\"20\" align=\"left\" valign=\"center\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-right: black 2px solid;\" height=\"20\" align=\"right\" valign=\"center\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Conservative -29 <\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tiny_grey_light.gif?resize=58%2C20\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"20\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" height=\"20\" align=\"left\" valign=\"center\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-right: black 2px solid;\" height=\"20\" align=\"right\" valign=\"center\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" height=\"20\" align=\"left\" valign=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tiny_grey_dark.gif?resize=100%2C20\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"20\" \/> <span style=\"color: black;\">Liberal Democrat 50<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-right: black 2px solid;\" height=\"20\" align=\"right\" valign=\"center\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Kingdom Independence Party\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukip.org\">UK Independence Party<\/a> -20 <\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tiny_grey_light.gif?resize=40%2C20\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"20\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" height=\"20\" align=\"left\" valign=\"center\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-right: black 2px solid;\" height=\"20\" align=\"right\" valign=\"center\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" height=\"20\" align=\"left\" valign=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tiny_grey_dark.gif?resize=66%2C20\" alt=\"\" width=\"66\" height=\"20\" \/> <span style=\"color: black;\">Green 33<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>You should vote: Liberal Democrat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">LibDems<\/a> take a strong stand against <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tax cut\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax_cut\">tax cuts<\/a> and a strong one in favour of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Public services\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_services\">public services<\/a>: they would make long-term <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Care of residents\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Care_of_residents\">residential care<\/a> for the elderly free across the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Kingdom\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=51.5,-0.116666666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=51.5,-0.116666666667 (United%20Kingdom)&amp;t=h\">UK<\/a>, and scrap university <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tuition\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuition\">tuition fees<\/a>. They are in favour of a ban on smoking in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Public space\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_space\">public places<\/a>, but would relax laws on cannabis. They propose to change vehicle <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tax\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax\">taxation<\/a> to be based on usage rather than ownership.<br \/>\nTake the test at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com\">Who Should You Vote For<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wsyvfbutton.jpg?w=1165\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who should I vote for? Your expected outcome: Liberal Democrat Your actual outcome: Labour -12 Conservative -29 Liberal Democrat 50 UK Independence Party -20 Green 33 You should vote: Liberal Democrat The LibDems take a strong stand against tax cuts and a strong one in favour of public services: they would make long-term residential care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[82,273,772,1022,1712,1779,1857,2304,2403,2463,2938,3100,3128,3189,3231,3246],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage","tag-82","tag-april","tag-conservatives","tag-election","tag-labour","tag-liberal-democrat","tag-make-votes-count","tag-parties","tag-politics","tag-public-services","tag-tax","tag-tuition","tag-united-kingdom-independence-party","tag-votes","tag-welsh-liberal-democrats-democratiaid-rhyddfrydol-cymru","tag-who-should-you-vote-for","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-1q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}