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I don't talk about my politics much. In the end, most discussions seem to end up with both of us relying on hearsay evidence that we remember having heard somewhere. There are almost no subjects where I would feel that I knew my stuff. Despite this, I tend to have fairly strong views on much of what goes on in politics. Generally those views are based on (a) fairly broad political/moral prinicples or (b) knowing enough about logic to know that the reasons given for something are bullshit/fallacies, in which case I tend to fall against it on the grounds that if there were good arguements they would be using them! Anyway, I expect that over the next few weeks I'll be shouting at the radio a lot but not mentioning it much here but I'll be voting Lib Dem this time (just like nearly all the other times).

I had my first online grocery experience today, which went pretty well. I was lamenting the fact that we really had to go to the supermarket last night and asked Alex whether it would be so very bad to pay for a delivery whereupon he pointed out that it's like buying free time on the internet. Which is so true. So I went for it. I was vaguely creeped out to discover that when you register for Tesco website it uses your clubcard number to show you all the things you've bought in the last 3 months. I mean, I knew they had that data, but it's just kind of unnerving to be confronted with it. All in all, it was pretty good. I think I forgot less stuff because the going through the cupboards/list making process and the actual shopping process were basically amalgated, the delivery wasn't too expensive (and next time we'll know which are the cheap days) and he turned up within the slot I'd booked. I liked the substitution mechanism as well, where for each item in your shop you could say "Don't subsitute this" or give specific instructions as to what to subsitute which relieved my worry about getting battery chicken and eggs as subsitutes. All in all, I may never go to the supermarket again.

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Website by Brian Eno? Good lord. Actually that's one of the most persuasive arguments I've heard so far for voting Lib Dem! Not really, because obviously voting one way just because famous person X does is silly; but Brian Eno is a man of Great Brain and Interest and makes it sound v plausible.

I am still looking for figures on Oxford East -- I understand that Andrew Smith has a large majority but would be interested to find out what the Lib Dem figures for this ward are. Do you happen to know, or have a good link for this?

Lib Dem were second in Oxford East last time, which gives strength to the idea of voting for them and reducing A Smith's majority.

Hah! Crossed over :)

Well, there's the BBC seat-by-seat (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/449.stm) info, which shows the Lib-Dems in second place last time but with a lot to do. Still, if you don't fancy Labour, a vote for Lib Dems here wouldn't be wasted, I'd say.

There's a discussion on Oxford East over here on my LJ.

I saw an Oxford East LibDem leaflet that had a chart with a carefully placed caption that covered up the Conservative share, making it look smaller (shame!). Nevertheless, they are in clearly in 2nd place, and I believe have a good chance of beating Andrew Smith (Oxford East is an unusual constituency in many respects). After all, he quit his job "to spend more time with his constituency" (I'm sure there wasn't any other reason) so he must have been worried! :-)

So here I think it's safe to vote LibDem. Unless that provokes a hung parliament and the LibDems opt for the Conservatives. But they wouldn't do that, would they?

I actually think it's really cool that the online site for my grocery store knows what I've bought in the store -- on the rare occasions when I get groceries delivered, I can just go to my list of previous purchases and check things off, as I generally buy the same stuff over and over. :-)

Yeah, it is handy, but it was a bit unnerving to see it all there the first time I logged in! It was actually really useful for finding the various odd things where I can't spell the brand name, but still want the soy sauce :)

I don't know my stuff on most politics issues. My boy just started a new community for ranting about the next election:

ukelection05, which I'm hoping will deliver rants with some factual content in time for the election, though he's put forward a fairly good case for Lib Dem already to me anyway..

Our online will deliver grocery store has a stupid interface. We can either say no substitutions on the whole order or allow substitutions on everything. This leads to some really annoying issues (yes, if you don't have our first choice toilet paper do bring something, but I don't want crap-brand apple juice that no one in the house will drink anyway because they're all picky on the specific brand). But I do like online groceries, and we keep getting discounts for using ours frequently that balance out the cost of delivery.

ooh, weak! I was really pleased that I wouldn't end up getting non-free range eggs, for example, which has always been one of my worries about online food shopping. I think we'll be doing it from now one though.

I think you can do that from Sainsbury's too. I know that you can refuse any of the substitute items on the door (you get a list of what items have been substituted).
And spare a thought for the poor delivery person. Earning 6 quid an hour, driving around totally lost and somewhat confused, with the office in your ear bugging you to get to the next delivery on time. Especially if they are a temp, so started late and don't know the regulars.

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