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I couldn’t stop laughing at this one… but they do struck a chord at one important issue: on what reasons do you vote for a particular party? (and for those NationStates afficionados, “none of the above” is *not* a valid answer)

For that geek web designer inside you, here’s an idea: vote for the party with the better markup-coding ability. (like they said, people vote for far less important reasons)

Here’s the result for the recent UK general election:

The Scottish National Party: 0 errors (XHTML 1.0 Transitional)
The Conservative Party: 0 errors (XHTML 1.0 Transitional)
The Labour Party: 1 error (XHTML 1.0 Transitional)
The Green Party: 5 errors (no DOCTYPE or character encoding, HTML 4.01 Transitional used)
Plaid Cymru: 9 errors (no DOCTYPE or character encoding, HTML 4.01 Transitional used)
Veritas: 11 errors (no DOCTYPE or character encoding, HTML 4.01 Transitional used)
Respect: 26 errors (no DOCTYPE, HTML 4.01 Transitional used)
The Liberal Democrat Party: 148 errors (XHTML 1.0 Transitional)
UKIP: 161 errors (apparently, an attempt at HTML 3.2)

Lets just say if this country was made up of web designers, I would be prime-minister by now ;)

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