25 April 2010
25th April 2010
One of the Green Party's core principles is democratic participation. We believe that each individual should have a fair say in how decisions are made. Therefore, we won't tell you to vote Green, we'll help you work out which party you should vote for!
It can be easy to get swept away with the propaganda: Never ending leaflets dropping on your doorstep, politicians smiling and shaking hands with people on the television. It seems that everybody wants to be your best friend. Now, unlike other political parties, we are not going to tell you to vote Green on the assumption that we know what is best for you, but we will show you some useful online tools to help you make you own choice. Please share these tools with your friends and family.
Policy speed dating - voteforpolicies.org.uk
The voteforpolicies.org.uk website is a great unbiased tool that allows you to blindly compare the policies of the six largest parties in the UK: Green Party, Labour, Lib Dems, Conservatives, UKIP and BNP. The website will show you each party's policy for a number of topics such as Crime, Education and Health. The twist is that it doesn't tell you which party the policy belongs to. At the end of the online test, the website will tell you which party you agreed with most and therefore who you should vote for. It saves reading all of those manifestos!
Interestingly, after nearly 180,000 blind tests, the Green Party's policies are the favourites with 26.5% of the vote.
Party personality test - www.politicalcompass.org
Take a personality test at www.politicalcompass.org to see where your social values are on the scale between 'libertarian' to 'authoritarian' and where your economic values are on the scale between 'left' to 'right'.
Then, find out where the political parties appear on the compass here. Notice how Labour, Conservative, UKIP and BNP are all in the same quarter. See how different the Liberal Democrat Party are and again how different the Green Party are.
East Anglian Daily Times online poll - www.eadt.co.uk/news/politics/election-2010
Another interesting online tool is the EADT newspaper's online election poll. When asked 'Who will you vote for?', 13% of respondents said they would vote for the Liberal Democrats. Just behind them are Labour with 12%. Further behind are the Conservatives with 7%.
Way out in the lead with 61% is the Green Party. If people voted this way across the country on polling day, we'd have a majority Green government!
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