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Date: May 27, 2009
by: Jen Blanco | Associate Editor
GREYHAWK LANDING — As a stay-at-home mom, Rachel Branson has made it her duty to find a good bargain.
Whenever she's found a good deal or a free activity, she's shared the information with her friends who may find it useful.
But one day as she was driving up Lakewood Ranch Boulevard to her GreyHawk Landing home, Branson spotted a sign for free hot dogs at Crowder Bros. Ace Hardware that ultimately led to a new online resource.
"I thought, 'You would never know (about this) unless you were driving by,'" Branson said. "I started putting this together in my head."
Within weeks, Branson launched her new Web site, www.freeinmanatee.com. The site offers visitors a calendar of free events, opportunities for deals and discounts and a listing of restaurants that offer free or practically free kids meals.
Currently, Branson is working to add a listing of local parks and playgrounds with pictures and descriptions of each.
Content is updated at least every other day so the site can be a one-stop resource for families.
"I'm always looking for ways to save," Branson said. "I wanted one place where I could put all that information and help other people. It's been fun for me to do, and I hope other moms appreciate it."
Not having grown up in Manatee County, the young mother had learned about many of the area's parks and activities through play groups and friends. So she knew that having one place to go for information would not only be helpful for her but for others as well.
Within days of coming up with her idea, Branson stuck to her free-is-best mentality and headed to the library to check out books on designing a Web site. If what she created didn't turn out well, no one would have to know. But if it did, it could be a resource for other moms.
Plus, the new skills she learned would be marketable if she ever enters back into the workforce, she said.
Branson began reading, researching and working on the Web site during her 2-year-old son's nap times. Learning HTML proved difficult, but it was just the challenge she needed.
Although Branson said she would love to improve the graphics on the Web site, doing so would require purchasing software, and for now at least, she is keeping the investment as minimal as possible in keeping with her theme.
The Web site launched in mid-April, and Branson said she eventually may add a forum for mothers to share ideas and money saving tips through the site. She hopes to have the parks and activities section finished within a month.
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Sometimes that happens quickly. The cracks were showing in Heroes before the end of Season 1; it fell apart in Season 2.
Sometimes it takes longer. How I Met Your Mother produced eight good, sometimes great, seasons before the current self-indulgent snooze. (If you want to see how it ends, however, there are only another few episodes to go.)
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Hello Chowhounders!
I just moved to NYC on East 60th and am looking for some recommendations in my new neighborhood. Specifically, I'm looking for the following:
A place that pours good pints and has a good selection of gastropub fare
A place to go when you don't feel like cooking, but isn't going to break the bank
I'm really just looking for a good burrito, no frills
Somewhere casual that does the standard dishes well
For a good, laid-back, non-pizza meal
For breakfast/brunch on weekends, dinner in a pinch, or late night indulgence
Good loaves, and dolce selections?
Good place for produce
Not a fan of Food Emporium or Gristedes. Is there hope?
After trying a few Asian Ethnic spots in the area, have been woefully disappointed, but if anyone knows of good Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, or Japanese places, would be eternally grateful! Otherwise, I'm already mostly resigned to the fact that I need to go downtown or to the burroughs.
As for pricing, if I could have a meal (sans booze) for roughly $50 for two, it'd be ideal. I realize though, for superior quality that I'd need to pay more. For now, I'm just looking for casual, reliable neighborhood go-to options.
Thanks in advance and looking forward to your guidance!
La Mangeoire, on 2nd, b/t 53rd & 54th, is a bistro, not a brasserie. But It is the kind of neighborhood place you are looking when you don't feel like cooking. The kitchen is helmed by 4-star Chef Christian Delouvrier. He's not doing anything fancy, just very well-prepared, delicious French bistro fare. (He is willing to prepare some fancier things with enough advance notice.) Service is cordial and efficient, and the ambiance is low-key and pleasant. It's not in our neighborhood, but if it were, we'd be regulars.
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My go-to French Bistro place is a little farther north from La Mangeoire and therefore closer to you: Cafe Joul on 1st bet. 58 & 59th. I've never been happy with Bistro 61 although I know people like it.
Incidentally, there are lots of street vendors of fruits and vegetables along 1st Ave - on is in front of the Food Emporium at 1st & 59th. They've mostly good good produce at very good prices.
For Turkish, Taksim on 2nd at about 54th is good, and Angelo's Pizza on 2nd at 55th is good thin crust pizza. Lots of young bars from 54th - 55th on 2nd but they seem very bridge and tunnel to me as i walk by. Not really neighborhood hangouts.
Fushia on the NW corner of 58 & 1st has a very interesting menu - mostly a little spicy for me, but I'm very sensitive to that.
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Only good bar I've found in the area on 2nd ave is Stags Head on 51st. It's attached to Cornerstone, which sucks (and is a Steelers bar booooo), but Stag's Head has a really good selection of local brews and a good crowd for the area, even on weekends.
Love Grand Sichuan East on 55th and 2nd.
Tadka and Chola on 57th are both very good delivery options for Indian. Also check out Gulluoglu (sp?) for baklava and Barros Lucos on 52nd btwn 1st and 2nd for Chilean sandwiches.
There's a fishmonger on 52nd and 1st that I haven't tried, but read good things about on this board.
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A small correction. Chola is on 58th, b/t 2nd & 3rd. I found the food a bit disappointing. I had high expectations because we'd eaten at its sister restaurant Dhaba, in "Curry Hill," and the food there was very good.
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Yes, they are good. And there's also Ideal Cheese right there, and a very good butcher.
Sushi Seki is up at 63rd Street for sushi - expensive.
Edit - Piscane is the fishmonger.
Simchick is the butcher.
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And, Naya for mezze - 55th & 1st.
a French Macaroon shop just opened on the south side of 59th bet. Madison and Park. i tried it today for the first time and thought they were pretty good. maybe not as good as Madeleine's, but they did have some interesting flavor combinations.
Brasserie in the low 50s between park and lex is one of my go to spots (it's got an Alscace/New American twist). Not as brasseiresque as say Les Halles. Very consistent and good service. Love the Pimm's Lemonade there too.
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Hello Glutton08!
Thank you for your recommendation! We checked out Grand Sichuan this evening, and ordered family style (er, without the family). We started off with the Dan Dan Mian, the Jellyfish appetizer, an order of steamed dumplings, then had the Sliced Fish and Sour Cabbage Soup, the Tea Smoked Duck and the Sauteed Peashoots. We were very happy with our meal. I highly recommend the Dan Dan Mian and the soup. I really wanted the Ma Po Doufu, but it was already way too much food! Do you have any particular dishes to recommend? We didn't order too many spicy dishes. In fact, the only truly spicy dish was the Dan Dan Mian. I am not afraid of spice, but not having much experience with Sichuan, would like to try something more adventurous. Would love to hear your, or anyone else's favorite dishes at Grand Sichuan.
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re: Chairman Meow
Ox tongue and tripe, and the Chengdu rabbit are usually quite spicy. Chongqing chicken is good too.
re: Chairman Meow
Yes, the Dan Dan Mian is great.
For spice, you were on the right track with Ma Po Tofu. I also often get the Braised Sliced Beef and the Chengdu Spicy and Aromatic Fish. All can be very spicy, though sometimes it takes a little to convince the wait staff that you really want it that way.
re: Chairman Meow
Guizhou chicken. Also the beef tendon appetizer.
For Italian- Canaletto on 60th street between 2nd/3rd. Very solid,not too expensive (unlike Scalinatella). We always have a good dinner there. Avoid Mia Dona, which used to be great but somehow they changed the menu and not it's not.
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Anyplace can have a bad night, but I feel obligated to report a spectacularly lousy dinner at Bistro 60 last week. The server touted the Dover Sole special and two of the three of us ordered it. Likely it was the "special" because they were trying to get rid of aging fish. One appetizer, an artichoke, was soggy and tasteless, and the escargot tasted off - like they, too, were aged. City Kid is right, it is reasonably priced for the neighborhood, but for almost inedible food, they are expensive.
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Wow, either an off night or I was lucky the one time I went!
Thank you all for your recommendations! I checked out Ideal Cheese, Piscane which was next door, as well as Simchik's the butcher today. Simchik's which used to be next door to Ideal Cheese moved up a few blocks between 54th and 55th. They were all wonderful places, and I can't wait to try the other places mentioned! They all sound great!
In the interim, I checked out Real Thai and Luscious Thai. I have to say, that I'm a sucker for Goi Cuons (Fresh Summer Rolls) and Real Thai was the only one in the vicinity that had them. They were not bad, although they didn't include any rice noodle in their summer roll which baffled me. I did a comparison of the papaya salads, and the one at Luscious Thai was far better than Real Thai. The dressing had better acid and the peanuts were well caramelized and crunchy. As for the pad thai and pad see ew, both places were pretty lackluster. I would not order them again. I might do a comparison of the curries soon, but if anyone has eaten at either of these places and have specific recommendations or would advise strongly against ordering particular dishes, would love to hear them. The Larb at Real Thai was okay, but I preferred the one at LAND.
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Some suggestions
Felice for nice Italian at 64th and 1st- fun, suprisingly trendy for the UES, lovely service, DELICIOUS ravioli
Bistro 61- casual French fare at 61st and 1st- never a wait, never need a reservation
Indian... still looking
- I like gourmet garage- 64th between 1st and 2nd
- Others like the food emporium under the 59th street bridge, but I find it chaotic to shop there because of the way the store is laid out; however, nice selection of produce and gourmet items
Another tip- nice, small farmers market on 67th between York and 1st on Saturdays.
haven't been, but my foodie friends have raved about Tiella- 1st, between 60 and 61st
If you are into Sushi, Sushi Sekki is out of this work- 1st and 64th, I believe
Enjoy the move!!!
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Tiella is wonderful! West side of 1st b/t 60th and 61. Tiny place w/great original Italian. And a really cool bathroom!
I'm a bit south of you so my suggestions might be geographically skewed a little but here goes nothing:
Meats: Simchick (or Lobel's if you're willing to head up to the 80s)
Fish: Pisacani
Cheese: Ideal
Upscale bistro: Ze Cafe
Casual French: Deux Amis
Gastropub: JG Melons (burger will be worth the trip)
Indian: Chola (I actually really like Chola but you'll find it's probably not what you're looking for - upscale and pricey for ethnic)
Mexican: Rosa Mexicana
Sushi: Sushi Seki
Casual but nice Italian Bar: Felice
Patisserie: Financier
And if you're looking for freshly baked croissants, there's a new French cafe/market on (I think) 63rd or 64th and 1st on the East side of the street.
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Few people are aware that Isabel Briggs Myers, the creator of the MBTI, wrote a murder mystery novel as a young woman, entered it in a national competition, and won first prize for it. Her story was competing with none other than Ellery Queen, so it was no mean feat for her to have won this prize. Recently reprinted by CAPT, Murder Yet to Come is a fascinating novel for a number of reasons--most particularly, of course, for those interested in type. Not only is it written by the well-known future developer of the MBTI herself, but by a self-typed INFP, and it contains a strong and central INFP character. Moreover, long before officially developing the MBTI, Myers peopled this novel with
While writing this article I decided to avoid mentioning not only the identity of the murderer, but also many plot details, in order to avoid spoiling it for many readers who enjoy solving mysteries. In doing so, however, this article does not do justice to the intricate plot line and other aspects of the novel worth discussing. And of course, it precludes an analysis of the type, and motives, of the murderer, as well as some other characters.
The story opens with the two main characters, playwright Peter Jerningham, his secretary Mac and Jerningham's old friend, detective and ex-soldier Peter Nillson , meeting by chance an old acquaintance of Jerningham's, Ryker , who asks them to help him in rescuing a damsel in distress. Linda Marshall, Ryker explains, has been kept for years against her will by Malachi Trent, a reclusive millionaire. Ryker fears that Malachi has changed his mind about allowing a marriage between Ryker and Linda, and that Linda is in great danger.
Entering Malachi's mansion, the rescuers find Malachi dead at his desk, and Linda standing dazed nearby with no memory of the last few hours. It is clear to everyone except Jerningham that the death has been an accident. Jerningham, described as imaginative, with a brilliant, quick logic, is the only one who is able to put unudual facts together to recognise that it must have been a murder. What follows is a series of discoveries in which Nillson applies his "slow, plodding logic", and Jerningham his flashes of intuitive logic. Jerningham, Mac and Nillson (who become the leaders of the investigation), together with the reader, considers one after another of the characters in turn to be the murderer. Each time, Nillson is satisfied that the correct person has been identified, and it is only Jerningham's intuition that rejects each suspect and keeps the investigation going.
The language used to describe Jerningham, a successful playwright of murder mysteries himself, unmistakably identifies him as a clear NT, probably an INTP or possibly ENTP. He does seem more likely to have N as his dominant function than T, and might well be an INTJ. There might be some anomaly here, in that he appears to be an INTP while seeming to have intuition as his dominant function. Perhaps this is a weakness in the MBTI as it later developed, in that it does not allow the possibility of an iNtp, as suggested by John Fudjack in this Journal.
Jerningham's insights about the situation come to him in spontaneous intuitive flashes of logic. He is a "big picture" person, and his mind is like quicksilver. He is never satisfied by the easy or obvious answer. He depends on his friend and secretary, Mac, to keep his life organized and to keep tabs on all the practical details of his life. Mac is highly valued by Jerningham for his phenomenal memory for detail and his quiet service. It isn't hard to identify Mac's full MBTI type: he would appear to be a clear ISFJ.
Another example of a clear MBTI type is the detective, Nilsson, who is recognizably STJ, probably an ISTJ. He is described as a man with solid, linear thinking who notices detail, then draws a conclusion through careful steps of observation. Logic and drawing conclusions through detail are his methods. He is frequently frustrated by Jerningham's hunches, but is willing to give them a chance because experience has taught him they are often correct.
Linda, gentle, intelligent and imaginative, has through these very qualities survived Malachi's emotional abuse morally intact. She has a kind of inner innocence, integrity and idealism that cannot be touched. Appearing fragile, she has enormous inner strength and can be extremely tenacious when something is important to her. Linda appears to be a very clear and obvious INFP.
Linda's role in the novel will be of immense interest to type enthusiasts. For a short while she herself is under suspicion of murder, but even then, at no time does she evoke anything in the other characters (except perhaps the murderer!), nor in the reader, but respect and sympathy. I believe it gives us some important information about INFPs in general and the way Myers viewed them.
It is Linda, a self-effacing, gentle INFP, who in some sense is really the central character in this group that finds itself living together over a period of a few days. She seems to draw the other characters towards her like a magnet, evincing positive reactions and a kind of trust that is hard to justify by logic alone. It is as if she takes an unconsciously and unwillingly central role through remaining in the background. She influences by the power of her character, not the dominating or strong overt power of some types. The power of INFPs is through a low-key but potent personal appeal. That Myers, the future creator of the MBTI, and an INFP herself, should allow her characters to be deeply affected by an INFP in this way, reveals not just a need to indicate the important role the low-profile INFP really plays, but a profound understanding of how the INFP is perceived by others and how the INFP experiences her own world.
There is an interesting aspect of the way Myers portrays this INFP. Linda has managed to retain her integrity and inner strength during her life with Malachi, and is prepared during the book to sacrifice herself for the person she loves. But, in a way, Linda is something of a Cinderella figure, a kind of princess who needs rescue in order to reveal the special, hidden gifts of the INFP. This reflects the peculiar combination of weakness and strength that the INFP both presents to the world and experiences her/himself.
Other qualities of the story likewise reveal Myers' unique INFP view of the world. It is significant that a large part of the novel's appeal is the vivid depiction of its characters, and the way these characters interact and co-operate, using their various skills, to solve the murder. The small group is shown being drawn together, not just by the murder itself and the fear of "murder yet to come", but by concern for Linda and for each other. All this is a reflection of the interests of its INFP author.
It is no surprise to me, either, that Myers has chosen for her solver of mysteries a character who is has N as either his dominant or secondary function, one whose methods and thinking an INFP, with N as secondary function, is likely to understand and enjoy. Moreover, the NT character Myers chooses for this role is one who deeply appreciates the abilities and contributions of his S colleagues. The author of "Gifts Differing" certainly would have regarded her cast of characters in just this way.
Although Myers shows Linda's helplessness and her dependence on others to solve the case, at least until her actions towards the end, it would be true to say Myers shows this INFP in a very positive manner. By the same token, she is similarly generous to other other characters, pointing out the gifts of each type.
Another focal area for me while reading novel was an attempt to correlate the MBTI types I was able to see with possible enneagram styles; and here I must describe an interesting phenomenon. I found it quite difficult to identify the character's enneagram styles from just reading the novel. It was quite impossible to say, for instance, using enneagram terms of reference, what Linda's main compulsion or fixation was, or even what her underlying motivation was. While reading the book, my guess was that most probably Linda is a 4, 5 or 9, but the reader would need to know more specific information, slanted from an enneagram perspective, to discern which of these she is. With the knowledge that Linda is an INFP, a rough guess can also be made along the same lines: that the most likely correlations would be 4, 5 or 9.
It seems to me that the difficulty I experience in identifying the enneagram styles of the characters is because their creator was quite consciously using a different model, and a different vocabulary, to describe and paint them. Because they are painted so clearly in one set of terms of reference, it is difficult to understand them in another. It is interesting that the absence of a distinctive typology model in novels and films does not prevent a student of type from identifying personality types and analyzing the dynamics between characters; but the application of a specific model may well make it difficult to see another pattern in the material.
I don't think that it necessarily follows that the two systems are operating on two totally different levels, as some claim, but it certainly does illustrate that they do not appear to be describing exactly the same thing. Of course, many individuals experience the same phenomenon when they understand quite clearly that they are an INFP, for example, but cannot see what enneagram style they are, or vice versa. The problem may well lie in the fact that the distinctive vision of each system uses a specific vocabulary; each model tends to use a characteristic language to describe what it is analyzing. It seems to me that this use of language may imprison just as well as it may free. If we wear a pair of glasses that filters only blue and red, it will be difficult to say whether there is any green and yellow in the world. The vocabulary used in the two systems of the enneagram and the MBTI is problematic if it forces us to see the world, or characters in a book, in only one perspective. A distinctive vocabulary then becomes yet another fixation that imprisons our perceptions instead of freeing it.
I am certainly not arguing that Myers is doing this in this novel. Her understanding of her characters is fresh and sharp, as is her vision of human personality. But I am suggesting that unless we free our own present-day language from the restrictions of either/or the MBTI/enneagram (or any other) models, we risk turning an understanding that was once radical and alive into something cliched and banal.
Although I thoroughly enjoyed Murder Yet to Come, I found myself feeling somewhat puzzled that an INFP would write a murder mystery, which, despite its richness of character, is still fairly literal in tone, not the whimsical or magical works I usually associate with INFP writers. It is just possible that the title itself might give some clue about this. Is it possible that at some unconscious level, Myers was aware that the writer inside herself would have to be murdered in order to give birth to the psychologist in her that would develop the MBTI? Perhaps this is trying too hard to find hidden meaning. Nevertheless, it remains true that in this novel we see Myers' future role as developer of Type pre-figured in these vividly drawn characters, each of whom is valued for his or her special gifts.
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Sunday, May 01, 2005
Tactical Voting
This time there is no way I am voting for Linton. Either I'll vote in Oxford West and Abingdon, where Evan Harris, who appears to be a reasonably good thing, is the sitting Lib Dem MP, or I'll vote Lib Dem at home, even though the Lib Dems appear to have absolutely no chance of winning the constituency, having got around twelve percent last time round. Linton is an awful MP: he never speaks - 440 out of 659, but he always votes - 12 out of 659 - with the Labour front bench; he is the 576th most rebellious MP in a parliament full of craven backbenchers. I wrote to him urging him to protest the war in Iraq, and got back a letter full of pro-war platitudes like "I will never apologise for supporting the removal of Saddam Hussein", as if Saddam had just been magically disappeared, by a mere act of will, rather than by invading and occupying a country which is now a complete mess. The only time I've seen him in the media was on Channel Four news, talking about proposed changes to the drug laws - he's on the Home Affairs select committee - coming across like David Blunkett was a dangerous social liberal. I cannot, in good conscience, vote for this man because he appears not to share any of the political goals that I do.
I'm mentioning this because there's been a couple of posts by British bloggers - here and here, the second by someone who apparently lives in Battersea - on the prospect of internet-organised tactical voting. Obviously I don't want the Tories to get in: 'something of the night' is about the nicest honest thing you could say about Michael Howard. Equally obviously, I find New Labour more than a little trying: their commitment to the market is ideological, their foreign policy gives liberal internationalism a bad name, and their failure to even attempt, despite two landslides, to shift political discourse in Britain out of the money-grubbing individualism and social authoritarianism of the Thatcherite era, to create, as the Attlee government did, a consensus around a set of values which outlasted the government itself, is both depressing and damaging. A social democratic party which refuses to contemplate taxing any incomes at above forty percent, which takes it as a virtue that it will not do that, is a social democratic party in name only.
I want a Labour party which believes in social justice and individual liberty at home, and military force as a method of absolutely last resort to achieve those goals abroad. This is my prime concern in deciding how to vote. I want the Labour party heirarchy to be forced to pay attention not just to the agenda of the Daily Mail and the Sun, and traditional Tory voters in marginal seats in Middle England, but to a genuinely progressive, social democratic agenda. To the views of people like my Dad, who was a member throughout the hard times of the seventies and eighties, who fought tooth and nail to protect the values of a social democratic party against the cheap radicalism of Militant when others wouldn't, who canvassed, who leafletted, who got the vote out, who went to branch meetings, who have been resigning their membership in disgust en masse. When people who split the Labour Party because they feared it was becoming unelectable because it was too left-wing are to the left of a Labour government on more or less every issue, something has gone seriously wrong.
The best way to my mind of achieving this goal of dragging Labour back to the centre-left is to punish Labour not by defecting to the Tories, but to the Lib Dems. If erstwhile Labour supporters vote Tory, that's a mandate to shift further to the right, a mandate to argue that lies about crime, immigration and the EU work, and that the Party should betray everything it holds dear to ensure that it gets to implement the policies based on those lies rather than the Tories. So no Labour voter who thinks the current government is too much like a Tory government should be voting for the Tories to teach them a lesson, because, even if you have had a irony bypass, voting Tory isn't going to make Labour any less Tory. They should vote for a party which stands for the things they stand for, or is at least on the proper side of the political spectrum. They need to make it clear that the Labour Party cannot take them for granted, that they want to vote for a party who takes seriously their values and concerns, and that if Labour is not the party closest to those values and concerns, they will desert them.
Personally, I'm not particularly concerned about which party it is that takes social justice and individual liberty seriously. If the Lib Dems end up being the guardians of the values of the Beveridge Report, then the Lib Dems end up being the guardians of the values of the Beveridge Report. However, the Lib Dems are not yet a potential party of government, and are unlikely to become one under the current voting system, so the centre-left needs the Labour Party: specifically, it needs it back on the centre-left, and that means letting it know that it cannot continue to be dragged to the right by a dubious strategy of triangulation without risking losing the support of the core that kept it alive in the dark days. So, Backing Blair and So Now Who Do We Vote For both have it wrong: Backing Blair says just vote for whoever will keep Labour out, which will mean voting for the Tories a lot of the time, which doesn't make sense, and So Now Who Do We Vote For is only advocating voting against Labour where other centre-left parties might win, which means no protest votes in seats where the contest is Labour-Tory, which means Labour can ignore most of its supporters views as long as they're no quite as bad as the Tories.
4 comments:
- Jim Doyle said...
Backing Blair lied? I don't think soAlso: Backing Blair: not just Iraq, fighting Unions too
- 1:27 pm
I don't entirely understand what you're suggesting. Rather than voting Conservative (because they're worse) or voting for another left-wing candidate when Labour are going to win (as this would be pointless); you're going to avoid the issue and vote in a constituency where the Lib dems are bound to win? What about people who don't have this option? What should they do? At least the tactical voting websites are actually tackling the issue, albeit in a pretty shite way, rather than skirting around it.
- 2:17 pm
- Rob Jubb said...
I'm suggesting defecting to the Lib Dems as a general strategy: Respect are, so far as I can tell, Militant in another guise, and the Greens are a bit dodgy on the EU, as well as being a bit too close to the radical fringe on a number of issues. The rationale is a) New Labour is, in many ways, despicably right-wing b) the Labour Party needs to be dragged back to the left c) the way of forcing the Labour Party back to the left is to vote for another party which is at least as leftwing as it is d) the only mainstream party to the left of Labour on many issues is the Lib Dems e) therefore, vote Lib Dem. I'm more likely to vote at home because it makes it more obvious that an ex-Labour voter has defected to the Lib Dems.
My complaint with Backing Blair is that it advocates voting Tory. This is counterproductive, because it makes it look like Labour is losing votes because it is not rightwing enough, hence justifying further lurches to the right. My complaint with So Now How Do We Vote For is that it will not advocate voting for other leftish candidates in seats where it is a straight fight between Labour and the Tories. Given that this is the situation in much of England, this deprives disaffected Labour voters of the chance of a protest vote: these supporters can continue to be taken for granted. Nick Barlow's post (linked to above I think) also has a good point about rebel Labour MPs: they should be supported, a distinction which neither of these sites really makes.
I didn't go to the meeting because a) I'm lazy, disorganized and generally a bit crap and b) given the crap Linton came up with last time I contacted him, making him squirm may be satisfying but it's not going to change him.
- 4:10 pm
I also live in Battersea and gogign to follow your lead as Labour voter voting liberl democrats who seem to have an excellent candidate. Theer is no wasted vote as if enough people vote for them tehn they can win and let's get Linton out he has not rperesented us well
- 10:44 am


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