Jeezus Wept...look at what is running the UK !!
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Vesterberg wrote:
<klaxon> Rick Chasey done a spelling mistake!!!</klaxon>Rick Chasey wrote:Cornerblock wrote:Not fooled. Red, Blue, all the same to me.
If people want diversified politics, then they need to campaign for different representation.
Only a very small minority of voters decides who gets elected.
They get disproportionately represented, and parties from accross the spectrum all jossle for those few votes.
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Rick Chasey wrote:Vesterberg wrote:
<klaxon> Rick Chasey done a spelling mistake!!!</klaxon>Rick Chasey wrote:Cornerblock wrote:Not fooled. Red, Blue, all the same to me.
If people want diversified politics, then they need to campaign for different representation.
Only a very small minority of voters decides who gets elected.
They get disproportionately represented, and parties from accross the spectrum all jossle for those few votes.0 -
Frank the tank wrote:I'm affraid you're right, not a lot of choice (politically) these days.
Yes, but why is that the case? Could it possibly be because they have all realised that's what the majority of the voting public want? We can winge and moan all we like but it's not like they came in and deposed the legitimate ruler of the country in a coup d'etat is it?0 -
Pross wrote:Frank the tank wrote:I'm affraid you're right, not a lot of choice (politically) these days.
Yes, but why is that the case? Could it possibly be because they have all realised that's what the majority of the voting public want? We can winge and moan all we like but it's not like they come in and deposed the legitimate ruler of the country in a coup d'etate is it?
Nah, it's because of the reason I stated above
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ALIHISGREAT wrote:shouldbeinbed wrote:Just a bit of pedantry, we didn't elect them,they got is as the biggest minority propped up by a shower of principle ditching (illusion of) power whores.
just a bit more pedantry...
the conservative party actually got a bigger share of the vote than the previous labour government... so they arguably had a stronger mandate.. its just that the constituency boundaries favour labour -> unsurprising as the consitunencies were adjusted under labour supervision.
2005 -> labour -> 35.3% of the vote (wins a majority with 356 seats)
2010 -> Conservative -> 36.1% of the vote (wins a minority of 307 seats)
the conservative party also got more real votes by over 1,000,000, with higher % turnout in 2010 too.. (although the 3.1% growth in the electorate will have had a small effect on the growth -> not the % turnout though)
So with a bigger share of the voters, and more people voting for them.. it seems like the electorate definitely did want a conservative government.
If only that was the system we used for electing governments eh. there were a million and a half more voters in 2010, The Conservatives election spend was more than double Labour's and over £2million more than every other party that returned an MP combined. All that money spent, more candidates, the tribulations of Brown & co and they whip up a whole million more than Labour. Cor
People were ready for a regimen change, just like in 1997, Also give the legacy of Blair that was out in the open then and the profile that Gordon Brown had managed to create for himself aided by his political colleagues and the impartial bastions of the press (when not out Horse Riding with Mr Cameron * moderately flippant comment*) the Conservatives should have absolutely pulverised Labour all ways up, that a bent and busted flush party came relatively close either by number of votes or seats really isn't something that the blues can be pleased about, its hardly a ringing endorsement.
The Conservatives also seem to be redressing the balance on the electoral boundaries. Who'd of thought eh, political parties of all hues gerrymandering the population for their own benefit.0 -
RideOnTime wrote:
christ, that's scary...
Kevin Rowland has really let himself go since the breakup of Dexy's midnight runners.0 -
shouldbeinbed wrote:
The Conservatives also seem to be redressing the balance on the electoral boundaries. Who'd of thought eh, political parties of all hues gerrymandering the population for their own benefit.
That's done by a non-political neutral organisation. (the boundary commission for England).
It's based on the census information I believe.
Again, we see the way in which elections are conducted affects everything!0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:shouldbeinbed wrote:
The Conservagtives also seem to be redressing the balance on the electoral boundaries. Who'd of thought eh, political parties of all hues gerrymandering the population for their own benefit.
That's done by a non-political neutral organisation. (the boundary commission for England).
It's based on the census information I believe.
Again, we see the way in which elections are conducted affects everything!
Fair do's, mea culpa.0 -
Sunderland Supporter wrote:And this country of ours elected these greedy, snivelling, worthless, trustless, moral-less, prejudiced, self-centered, self-effacing, fox hunting,bowler hat wearing cretinous morons to manage the UK coiffeurs.............
Quick! Somebody warn the UK hairdressing industry!!0 -
that explains the fringe benefits - ay than you.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0
