I noticed a site mentioned on twitter earlier – its called ‘vote match’
You enter which area of the UK you are located in, answer a few questions and highlight political issues you feel are the most important and it calculates which political party your expressed views are closest to.
My result came back as SDLP – Social Democratic & Labour Party.
Here’s the thing though, i’m not going to tell you who i vote for next thursday but i will tell you that i am trying to make an informed opinion before i do so – my vote will be based solely on party policy.
That may sound incredibly stupid to some people in other parts of our world – you may think im stating the obvious – but here in Northern Ireland a LOT of people will still vote with ‘religious allegiance’ in mind!
If i voted SDLP or anything outside of Unionism, i know people who would be deeply offended with me and may even question my faith – i kid you not!
Some of these people have actual reasons why they support hardline Unionism – those reasons range from informed opinions to bigotry – and some just follow the crowd like lemmings. The same can be said of all the parties!
Its time to get real though – Northern Ireland needs real politics and real politicians – its time to use your brain before you vote and give this country a chance!
If you are a in the North Antrim Constituency and want to know more about your local candidates and their policies, there is a Question Time being hosted in High Kirk Presbyterian Church on Friday 30th April at 7.30pm – this should be an opportunity to hear what the parties stand for & hopefully help you make an informed decision about who to vote for.
I am planning on going along to the thing in high kirk, you be about?
Yea we will be there unless anything untoward prevents us going….
I don’t think Lorraine is coming though, just me, I am totally undecided about who to vote for, so it should help me decide. I know what you mean about voting someone other than an unionist party… I mean, in Ballymena, are you really a Christian?! it’s just ridiculous, ha ha, there are a couple of parties I most definitely wouldn’t vote for though, and have good reason for it, not simply because that’s what expected of me
We will look out for you when we get there – last weekend, 5 of the 7 candidates had agreed to be there so iv not heard any updates on that but i hope all 7 are there – though i would suspect that 1 definitely will not – im going to tweet some at it also – im not sure why lol