The Blood is The Life 20-03-2012
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 09:00 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_s_b- Change to Sunday trading laws would force us into shops against our will, warn Christians
- The 1930s advert that Mercedes Benz would rather forget
Proud suppliers of the Nazis!
- Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch
- BBC News - Richard Bacon: My battle with the trolls
I worry about the maxim "don't feed the troll". While it's certainly good advice for the victim, I worry that it's the fact that bystanders don't speak out that lets them think their behaviour is acceptable.
- Wile E Coyote, Tragic Hero of Science
"Wile E’s faithful adherence to scientific principles in a universe that has no respect for them is admirable. When the wrong half of the cliff falls away or the heavier end of the catapult flips upside down to smash him, Wile E goes back to his drawing board faithfully and tries again and again and again and again. He knows how the laws of his universe should work, but does not know that the gods lording over his existence are sadistic jerks who take glee in his suffering."
- BBC News - Doctors to challenge coalition MPs
I hope they pay attention to the actual voting records of the actual MPs, and don't just stand agin ANY Tory/Lib Dem...
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Date: Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 10:49 pm (UTC)Would depend on the seat. I could see it doing well locally-it's effectively a 3-way split seat with a lot of history of voting Independent in some of the wards.
There are local voters that don't like the coalition, don't want Labour back, but can't stomach the obvious protest types-I could see the Greens making headway if they were able. but if a prominent known person stood as an independent of some sort, but started planning way in advance...
(and yeah, I know people that knew Fran and Mike, and while I don't know the details it did sound similar to the Exeter situation when the SDP merged in)
But broadly, yes, there was that effort to put Independents forward all over the place last time, but that didn't get anywhere either, the problems Independents have is they mostly come from outside party structures and have no clue how to campaign or build momentum, add that to the squeeze effect and most are doomed. Those that do well tend to do so with party support or from party background (Tatton, Wyre Forest, Blaenau Gwent are the only three I can think of recently).