Peter the Lefty
Peternerdman
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« on: August 07, 2012, 06:04:43 PM » |
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« edited: August 07, 2012, 06:06:17 PM by Peternerdman »
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All right, I've had this idea for a while for a "How would you have voted" thread where instead of in national or state/provincial election, we could have a thread where in a given country and you were a member of the party with which you most sympathized, how would you have voted in its leadership and deputy leadership elections? Here's a UK edition. And yes, you can change your hypothetical party affiliation at a given date (ex. voting in all Labour leadership elections up to and including 1994, leaving the Labour Party and switching to the Lib Dems around 2003, and voting in all Lib Dem leadership elections after that. Just be sure to say why). As is to be expected of me, I'd be Labour.
How I would have voted in leadership elections if I were a Labour member:
1922: Ramsay MacDonald
1935: Clement Atlee
1955: Arthur Bevan
1960: Hugh Gaitskill
1961: Hugh Gaitskill
1963: Harold Wilson
1976: Tony Benn first ballot (he was much more moderate as a cabinet minister than he later was)/James Callaghan on the other ballots
1980: Dennis Healey
1983: Neil Kinnock
1988: Neil Kinnock
1992: John Smith
1994: Tony Blair
2007: Gordon Brown
2010: Diane Abbot as a display of rage against New Labour in the first round, though I wouldn't have voted for her if she seemed to have a chance of winning/Ed Miliband in the other rounds.
Deputy leadership elections:
1981: Dennis Healey
1988: Roy Hattersley
1992: Margaret Beckett
1994: John Prescott
2007: Jon Cruddas/Harriet Harman in final round.
So pick a party (which you can change) and state your hypothetical votes. If this is a success, I just might do a Canadian edition.
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