Tag: 365daysofpolitics
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#365daysofpolitics day 12: OMG PEOPLE
Today was the first time I actually met my fellow party officers. It sounds – and feels – weird that only today, after a general election, I met with the guys that stood for parliament under the manifesto that I helped to build with them. Paul and James were exactly as I’d envisaged and more.…
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#365daysofpolitics day 11: the missing day
You may have noticed day 10 went missing. My excuse is a camping trip with friends, although we did chat a bit about politics so it wasn’t a completely politics-free day. That brings me nicely on to something I’ve been thinking about. I feel guilty if I don’t have much to show for a day.…
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#365daysofpolitics day 9: ticking along
A busy work day means very little opportunity to actually do anything else today. So I’ve only managed to engage a bit on the Manifesto. I’ve also begun exploring the idea of joining a union. I believe in the principle of union membership, but I’ve never felt the ‘need’ as such. However, I’ve been thinking recently…
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#365daysofpolitics day 8: fielding candidates
A bit more manifesto wrangling today, including merging another successful proposal in. Then I’ve spent some of my evening doing my job as Tech officer for Something New. We have two new candidates standing in forthcoming elections – Lindsey Garrett for London Mayor and Jessie Macneil-Brown in Tower Hamlets Stepney Ward – so I’ve been arranging some technical…
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#365daysofpolitics day 4: every little helps
Today was a family day so I make no apologies for doing one tiny thing today, and accepting a contribution to the GE2015 data project.
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#365daysofpolitics day 3: Officialdom
Today I recommitted to the political party that sprang out of the OpenPolitics Manifesto project. While I got involved a while ago my participation in the last six months has been almost non-existent due to the other pressing issues in my life. That changed today when I agreed to be Something New’s technology officer. I’ll…
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#365daysofpolitics day 2: independent, machine-readable election stats
Having stayed up all night to watch the election (depressing as it was) I took the opportunity to collate the general election results. The project gives us an open data source showing the results for each constituency, and the seats. It’s not quite finished, and I plan to add JSON as well as CSV versions…
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#365daysofpolitics day 1: Voting
Today I voted in the parliamentary and local (district and parish) elections. Choices for the local elections were in desperately short supply. I ended up having to vote Labour just to say no to the Tories.
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Why I voted in a safe seat
A little while ago I posited the argument that not voting is a proxy vote for the winner. Now I’m going to suggest that it’s worth voting even in a safe seat where you’re voting against the incumbent. In Lichfield I’ve voted for Rob Pass, the Green Party candidate. He won’t get anywhere close to…