Poll: *** 2010 General Election Result & Discussion ***

[muon]

wacky voting system. Vote Brown out and he has the right to remain in No 10 as PM.

You vote your MP in. If your MP then wants Brown to be PM, then that is his/her choice.

 

[rypt]

How can you not trust Tories with economy but trust Labour?
Labour ruin the economy, Tories fix it.

And they have done a bad job, we are almost bankrupt, with high taxes, still in a random war, have a benefits culture and so on

 

[Russinating]

I vote Lib Dem and oddly my vote feels kind of wasted living in such a Lib Dem stronghold: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/a73.stm. Up 9% on 2005, now a majority of 11,000.

They've had a terrible night on the whole though. If after such a fever and good polls beforehand they go ahead and lose seats, they're going to need something frikkin' amazing next time to get anywhere, especially when they're even losing relatively strong LD seats: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/f17.stm.

 

[Duke]

Im baffled as to how Labour still have so many votes. Have people forgotten what a bad job they've done for the past decade? Do people think Gordon & Labour are going to change for the better if they get re-elected?

Blame Scotland.

 

[dalin80]

How can you not trust Tories with economy but trust Labour?
Labour ruin the economy, Tories fix it.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

sorry, for a second there a thought you said that the tories fix economies, must have been a typo.

 

[DJMK4]

The Voting system is a complete con if you ask me.

 

[Third Opinion]

You vote your MP in. If your MP then wants Brown to be PM, then that is his/her choice.

So the two losing parties have the right to Govern the country?

 

[Cosimo]

The results so far:

 

[The Mad Rapper]

I see Joanne cash didn't win her seat - she doesn't look happy!

 

[muon]

So the two losing parties have the right to Govern the country?

If the majority of MPs (they have the mandate to represent their constituency) agree, yes.

 

[Alex74]

If they can establish a stable majority then...yea

 

[Sankari]

Under proportional representation you have larger areas. They can't be local to everyone. The more representative you want it to be, the larger the area.

Nick Champion is currently local to you because constituencies are small. When he's representing another constituency miles away, how is he local to people there? This effect is much worse in rural areas where population density means these new constituencies will be massive.

I don't see what the problem is. You're concerned by the fact that Nick isn't within walking range of every single constituent in his electoral division? Honestly?

You do realise Nick Champion is an Australian MP, don't you? You do realise I am talking about Wakefield in Australia, not Wakefield in the UK? I am talking about an Australian MP, operating in an Australian constituency, under proportional representation. It's true that he's not local to everyone in his electoral division, but so what?

Back to the UK... Shahid Malik lives in Dewsbury, but once ran for office in Brent (West London). How many people in Brent would consider Malik "local" to them, do you think?

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Is there anywhere displaying votes for each party as a % of those cast? That will show how broken the current system is, you'll see a much higher Lib-Dem % of the popular vote.

 

[Klo]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

sorry, for a second there a thought you said that the tories fix economies, must have been a typo.

They fix budget deficits.

 

[rypt]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

sorry, for a second there a thought you said that the tories fix economies, must have been a typo.

In 97 we had a strong economy set to grow, right now we have an economy about to collapse

 

[muon]

I don't see what the problem is. You're concerned by the fact that Nick isn't within walking range of every single constituent in his electoral division? Honestly?

You do realise Nick Champion is an Australian MP, don't you? You do realise I am talking about Wakefield in Australia, not Wakefield in the UK?

Okay, my mistake.

Back to the UK... Shahid Malik lives in Dewsbury, but once ran for office in Brent (West London). How many people in Brent would consider Malik "local" to them, do you think?

Malik must hold a local office in his constituency with hours he is there. He can live wherever he wants. He works in his constituency and Westminster.

 

[redeye_uk]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

sorry, for a second there a thought you said that the tories fix economies, must have been a typo.

Whats funny about that?

Labour inherited a fairly healthy economy and look at what they've done to it. As usual the Tory's have to pick up the pieces so Labour can ruin it again next time....

 

[simpletom]

As I posted above, they will have kept some support from people who don't want to become worse off under Con. Think about how many Civil Servants there are who face losing their jobs under a Con Government for example.

NHS, education etc will all suffer under the Tories as well. Certainly very few people where I work will ever vote Tory as will almost certainly mean job cuts. Furthermore, most of us are old enough to remember the previous Tory government and how crap that was.

I should imagine that these forums have a relatively young demographic.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Labour inherited a fairly healthy economy and look at what they've done to it. As usual the Tory's have to pick up the pieces so Labour can ruin it again next time....

Historical precedent agrees.

 

[SiD the Turtle]

Is there anywhere displaying votes for each party as a % of those cast? That will show how broken the current system is, you'll see a much higher Lib-Dem % of the popular vote.

Check out the main BBC results page: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/

Shows how much trouble PR would cause.