General Election 2019: Beware of ‘tactical voting’ websites that are really party propagandists
A timely warning from Another Angry Voice.
As we go into general election campaigning, this is vital information from Another Angry Voice:
Since the announcement of the December General Election there has already been a proliferation of different tactical voting websites, but you have to be extremely careful with them.
One of the major problems is that some of them, especially the supposedly Remain-focused “Best For Britain” Get Voting site, are clearly hyper-partisan party political propaganda outfits disguising themselves as ‘useful advice’.
In several marginal Tory/Labour constituencies this dreadfully partisan site is advising people to vote for the Lib-Dems, despite the fact they got less than 5% of the vote last time around.
This outrageous Get Voting site is recommending the Lib-Dems in a whopping 99 seats where they trailed the incumbent by over 25,000 at the last election!
To put this absolute insanity in perspective the biggest swing of the 2017 was a swing of just over 15,000 in Gordon, north East Scotland.
What this “Best For Britain” Lib-Dem front operation is advocating is trying to achieve 99 record-breaking mega swings simultaneously.
After years of contemptuously dismissing Leave voters as total idiots who believe in unicorns, these Lib-Dem Remain Ultras are actively advising people to waste away their votes on an absolutely ludicrous unicorn hunt!
The site mentioned above is only one of several; until you know otherwise, I think you should consider all of them to be suspicious.
The best advice This Writer can give is to use your own intelligence.
Source: Beware of dodgy tactical voting sites
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