About me

In the interests of full disclosure I'd better explain who I am and why I've built this site.

My name is Dave Cross and I live in Balham, which is part of the London Parliamentary constituency of Battersea. I'm a freelance computer consultant specialising in open source software and web technologies. If you're interested, you can read my weblog here.

I've been a Labour Party supporter for as long as I can remember (well, except for a brief flirtation with the Green Party in the late 1980s) but I didn't get round to actually joining the party until the disappointment of the 1992 General Election. By that time, however, the Labour Party had moved a long way from the Socialist party that I wanted it to be. When the leadership refused to listen to the membership and imposed its own candidate for the London Mayoral Election of 1999 it was the final straw and I resigned my membership. As a good friend put it "I didn't leave the Labour Party - they left me".

The Labour Government continues to act in ways that appall me. Their actions in taking the British Army into the invasion of Iraq make me ashamed to admit that I voted for them.

However, with another General Election due very soon I'm afraid that I will be voting Labour again. I despise the Labour leadership and I don't think that Martin Linton is a particularly good constituency MP, but I still believe that this is preferable to the danger of a Conservative MP or (even worse) a Conservative government. My forthcoming vote for the Labour Party should therefore be seen as a tactical anti-Conservative vote.