[ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

[paula at fossbox.org.uk]

Green Party has decent digital policies. But I live in a Labour
stronghold in East London where there's a risk of BNP returning MPs in
up to 4 boroughs. I'm not sure whether to vote strategically to try to
keep the Tories/BNP out or to vote Green. BNP is fielding candidates in
my Borough but it isn't a stronghold so I think we'll be OK there.

So, it'll be the Greens. If my fellow Tower Hamlets residents are
masochistic enough to vote in the Tories, there's not much I can do
about it. I think the alleged socialists have been taking the piss for
too long on the basis that we're too scared of the Tories to vote them out.

BTW, Grauniad has a thing about people being falsely accused last time
the media corporations started targeting individuals:
http://tinyurl.com/y3qvkr3

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jim.cameron at buhlersortex.com wrote:
> Andy:
>   
>> 189 MPs voted Yes (Aye), 47 voted No (Noe).
>>     
>
> The majority of whom weren't present at the debate. You might very well think the bill was railroaded through by whatever MPs the whips could round up and herd into the chamber to vote the party line without even hearing it; I couldn't possibly comment.
>
>   
>> There are 646 MPs so most of them couldn't even be bothered to vote.
>>     
>
> And some 20,000 letters and emails in opposition, according to 38degrees. On average, that's more than 30 each. Surely there's only so many times you can send out a form letter full of platitudes before you start to think, maybe people /don't want/ this thing to pass?
>
> So what can we do now? Donate to the Pirate Party (unfortunately, there is no pirate candidate in my constituency), donate to the Open Rights Group, email our candidates, buttonhole them when they come round canvassing ... anything else?
>
> I was somewhat heartened to see that the front page article in today's Metro was strongly critical (in so far as a newspaper article can be in these days of journalistic "balance") both of the bill and the appallingly undemocratic way it was rammed through Parliament.
>
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