It’s 23 days until we elect a new leader, and despite all my reservations, despite all their errors, despite feeling betrayed by many of their actions in the last 13 years, I have never felt more certain that I should vote Labour.

I am not going to go into the reasons in this post.  I will post a new reason every day for the next three weeks, starting tomorrow, and hope that even if I just persuade a handful of people, it will make a difference. I know I have a tendency towards being bombastic when I argue about things which are close to my heart, and I hope that if I do this, it doesn’t alienate any readers. I just really believe that the Tories are the party which will look after the fewest people if they get in.

There are a few resources which should get you thinking about how to vote – a couple here now.

The first compares how you feel on issues and matches your answers to the party which best represents that: http://www.votematch.org.uk/2010/index.php

The second shows your “Voter Power”.  http://www.voterpower.org.uk/. This shows that:

“In the UK, the only voters with any real power to choose the government are those who live in marginal constituencies.

Less than 20% of constituencies can be considered marginal.

The rest of us have little or no power to influence the outcome of the election.

In fact, statistical analysis by the nef (the new economics foundation) shows that one person in the UK does not have one vote…

…it’s more like 0.25 votes.

In some ultra safe constituencies the value of your vote falls to practically zero.”

And I’ll start with my reasons tomorrow.

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