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Guava

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General Election 2015
« on: 21 January 2015, 01:21:47 pm »
General election coming up soon.  Which political party is likely to best serve the needs of sex workers?
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Nia Hope

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Re: General Election 2015
« Reply #1 on: 22 January 2015, 03:31:31 pm »
Not labour for sure! I think the dramas with excessive immigration will automatically highlight prostitution for all parties.
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Re: General Election 2015
« Reply #2 on: 22 January 2015, 03:45:21 pm »
Green Party!
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victoryrose

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Re: General Election 2015
« Reply #3 on: 22 January 2015, 04:06:36 pm »
Green absolutely 100% and the best option for students too.
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Re: General Election 2015
« Reply #4 on: 22 January 2015, 06:46:00 pm »
A quick reminder that the UK system is based on individual constituencies and so it's the candidates in your constituencies that are the ones you need to look at first, both in terms of their attitude and in their chance of winning. I am in a constituency where, barring something completely unprecedented, the result is already known. So it doesn't matter which way I vote.

No matter which party (almost!) she was standing for, I'd want to vote for Belinda Brooks-Gordon, for example. She happened to stand for the LibDems in West Suffolk last time, I don't know about this.

skeptical-voter.org/wiki/index.php?title=Belinda_Brooks-Gordon

The coverage of the LibDem debate on safer sex work featuring her mentioned elsewhere here is no longer on the BBC iPlayer, but like all good former 'policy wonks', I have a copy of it.

The Greens may get more votes than the LibDems overall, but - unless there is an enormous change in their support, into the 30% range - they will get many fewer MPs. (Equally, if anyone wants to bet with you that UKIP will get more MPs than the LibDems, take the bet!)
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Re: General Election 2015
« Reply #5 on: 22 January 2015, 08:18:06 pm »
You're right, there's little chance of my local Green candidate becoming MP for example, I'm voting Green on the principle that tactical voting sucks and if everyone who wanted to vote Green/agreed with their policies did, they'd have a much better chance, and also because I genuinely don't like any of the other candidates. Labour aren't too fantastic with their attitudes towards immigrants (they are slowly moving more centrist) so it's not in my interests to vote for them either, unless it's to avoid the much worse alternatives but as I said I hate tactical voting. It's a case of "if only everyone were like me" but hey, that applies to all of politics. :P Anyway it seems the likelihood is we won't get anyone in power that has particularly progressive views with regards to sex work..
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Nia Hope

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Re: General Election 2015
« Reply #6 on: 22 January 2015, 09:31:32 pm »
Labour will probably get in as I live in East London in a high Asian area and they all obviously hate ukip, I won't vote labour because I loathe Harriet Harmen so I'm probably gonna vote Green, it's a wasted vote but same as others I don't see the point in tactics,
If voting made a difference it would be illegal, saw that sprayed on a wall once, very true x
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pussycat

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Re: General Election 2015
« Reply #7 on: 23 January 2015, 09:16:54 am »
In my cares Labour winning is a dead cert. However, never see your vote as a wasted vote if you're voting for an underdog. I like to think I'd be contributing towards them keeping there deposit, which I believe if they get 5% of the vote they'd be able to do. Also despite them being sure they won't get a seat an increase in votes will provide them with encouragement to continue to stand. I used to be Labour, but I've fallen out of love with them now so will be taking my vote elsewhere.
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