On Thursday 10 June 2004 06:25, Adam adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:

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Scroll down to the table that shows the previous results. It seems to me that if we made a concerted effort despite our own political convictions to vote UKIP we may be able to unseat the sitting Lib Dem!

No, error, bad! wrong! European Parliament elections (AIUI) use a proportional representation system and going by the results of the last election is possibly not a good idea. So far I have read that many of the main parties (especially Conservatives and Labour) are losing votes to minority parties, so what everyone *must* do is vote, as every vote for a party that isn't a main party means you make their share of the vote smaller, at least then even votes for something scary like the BNP will give the main parties less seats. So like Alan Cox said vote Green or UKIP (personally I feel the UKIP has more against it than for it) or one of the other minority parties, I don't suppose anyone knows Martin Bells position on software patents?

I do apologise if that was not what I wrote, I am taking rather a lot of prescription pain-killers lately and this has some effect on my abilities, (luckily the side effect is that I don't care). My intention was to make exactly the same point as Adam has. Even were I to re-read my original post, I know from past experience that I would only see what I meant to write.

UKIP may not appear very attractive, however they do appear to be the front runners of the minor parties, but the real point is to VOTE, but NOT for the three big parties.

When its political parties, is it party's or parties?