{"id":1759,"date":"2008-04-11T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2008-04-11T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T09:38:01","slug":"on-flawed-online-political-quizzes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/on-flawed-online-political-quizzes\/","title":{"rendered":"On flawed online political quizzes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock Democracy (an offshoot of Charter 88) are normally fairly good, nicely liberal chaps with a genuine desire to help. But I take serious, serious issue with their <a href=\"http:\/\/london.votematch.co.uk\/\">London Mayoroal election quiz<\/a>, designed to determine which candidate you should vote for based on policy alone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried it twice now, and both times it&#8217;s told me to vote (in this order) for the BNP, ex-UKIP and Veritas nutter Winston McKenzie, and UKIP.<\/p>\n<p>To slip briefly into the vernacular &#8211; what the fuck? I mean, seriously &#8211; no sodding way, chum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> the full list, in order. At least it got Ken Livingstone&#8217;s position right&#8230; (I voted for him the last two times &#8211; thanks to a combination of liking the congestion charge and to stop Shagger Norris)<\/p>\n<p>Richard Barnbrook (BNP)<br \/>\nWinston Mckenzie<br \/>\nBoris Johnson (Conservatives)<br \/>\nGerrard Batten (UKIP)<br \/>\nLindsey German (Left List)<br \/>\nMatt O&#8217;Connor (English Democrats)<br \/>\nSi\u00e2n Berry (Green Party)<br \/>\nBrian Paddick (Liberal Democrats)<br \/>\nAlan Craig (Christian Peoples Alliance \/ Christian Party)<br \/>\nKen Livingstone (Labour)  <\/p>\n<p>Actual voting intention? Boris and Brian, on a stop Ken ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock Democracy (an offshoot of Charter 88) are normally fairly good, nicely liberal chaps with a genuine desire to help. But I take serious, serious issue with their London Mayoroal election quiz, designed to determine which candidate you should vote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/on-flawed-online-political-quizzes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-nosemonkey-news","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}