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

Who did you vote for?

  • Labour

    Votes: 137 13.9%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 378 38.4%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 304 30.9%

  • UK Independence Party

    Votes: 27 2.7%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 10 1.0%

  • British National Party

    Votes: 20 2.0%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • DUP

    Votes: 4 0.4%

  • UUP

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • SDLP

    Votes: 3 0.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 16 1.6%

  • Abstain

    Votes: 80 8.1%
  • Total voters
    985
  • Poll closed .
britboy4321 said:
I think (and may be wrong)

Nick Clegg is saying 'The Tories sound best at the moment' to make his hand stronger when he speaks to Labour.

The final result will be a referendum on PR, and a LibLab coalition.
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Clegg is hanging on for the Tories but they haven't even phone him yet!

Meanwhile Labour is desperate to woo him
 
Anyone just seen that Labour numpty politician on the beeb just now? He said the result has shown the Country has decided Brown is the best PM and the Tories have made a horrendous lose last night.

Was he watching the same election as me?
 
I think what's telling is the number of votes each party has per seat.. (as of a little earlier)

Conservative: 10.2 million votes, 291 seats.. thats roughly 35,000 votes / seat won
Labour: 8.3 million votes, 251 seats.. thts roughly 33,000 votes / seat won
Lib Dem: 6.5 million votes, 52 seats.. thts roughly 125,000 votes / seat won

how anyone can claim that's democratic or representative is beyond me.

Secondly the cons arguing that a lab/lib coalition would be "morally wrong".. might want to consider that it would be 52/3% ish of the popular vote compared to their 36%..

If anything hopefully this demonstrates to Joe Public the need for a fair(er) voting system
 
dokko said:
What would that mean?

News saying there's a lot of pressure on Cameron from his own party now as they thought he should have cleared up and hasn't, and tbf to them they've got a point. Brown is so unlikeable even those who voted labour don't like him and want him gone, therefore the Cons really should have cleared up.

Also they must fear for the future, Brown is a dead man walking, replace him with a likeable frontman and Labour will win the next election, that's got to be their fear.
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Well, Cameron could promise Clegg a referendum on PR in exchange for coalition support. If the public don't support PR then Cameron loses nothing but still keeps power. It gives Clegg something to sell to the Party and they get some power. I would suggest they have Vince Cable as Chancellor. Win, win all around.
 
The Mad Rapper said:
Not to the detriment of the wishes of the Public. Give us a referendum at the very least - let us decide.
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Referendums are pointless. Everyone already knows what the result would be.

The public want PR. Why waste money on a referendum proving what everyone already knows.


Of course, the public is often wrong. The public want public executions. And the public do not understand the pitfalls of always having weak government, and having 32 parties represented in the commons will turn it even more into a monkey's tea party .... :(
 
How about two chambers? One similar to the MP system and another which has proportional representation?
 
Secret_Window said:
This is true.

I was between lib-con for voting and settled with lib dems because I wanted to see major reforms happening. Of course, there were aspects I didn't fully agree with on the lib dems but for me personally they spoke for more of the things I was for.

It seems to me that the general consensus here on this forum is if you don't vote conservative you are dumb, ill-informed and a joke to the voting the system - because your view/vote is not in line with theirs. It's this pathetic snobbery and attitude of superiority over people's views is really obvious here by some posters dominating the threads and protected/backed-up by their bandwagon buddies.

I am sorry if this offends some of you but it is blatantly obvious in this forum discussion of the election more so than others I have visited. Not a very welcoming nature of discussion at all from what I have observed over the last few weeks right up to now.
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No your right, I find it wierd sometimes when clearly inteligent people get so entrenched on there views that they can't contemplate being wrong (not that there really is a right or wrong)
 
What a mess this is really, Lib-Lab wouldn't have a majority (thank god) and the Conservatives can't properly govern, the only option is Lib-con but electoral reform is a huge hurdle, also the lib dems revenge job on the city would have to be reined in by the likes of Ken Clarke.
 
Third Opinion said:
Anyone just seen that Labour numpty politician on the beeb just now? He said the result has shown the Country has decided Brown is the best PM and the Tories have made a horrendous lose last night.

Was he watching the same election as me?
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If you compare the results with what was expected 2 months ago, Cameron has made a monumental bodge of it all ...
 
britboy4321 said:
Best of a bad bunch. I believe Brown and team will do a better job at taking us out of this global recession than Cameron's 'take the money out of the economy' system would.
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You mean the same Brown and team that have mis-managed our economy the last 13 years? The fact that you're a die hard Labourite shows how little you know. Get your head out of your backside and take a look at just how good a manager of our finances Brown has actually been.

This isn't to say Cameron would be better, just that Brown has been an utter failure.

Evangelion said:
No, that's just your ignorance showing through.

Australia has enjoyed PR for almost 100 years and we're doing fine. Hung parliaments are rare, and strong governments are very common. You have no idea what you're talking about.
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britboy4321 said:
Anecdotal.
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How is it anecdotal? It's evidence that PR can work. Whether you choose to look at that evidence or not is up to you, and evidence to everyone else just how little you actually know.

Evanglion is correct, you are ignorant. And just like every other die hard Labour voter out there, and your own party, you refuse to listen to the truth.
 
britboy4321 said:
If you compare the results with what was expected 2 months ago, Cameron has made a monumental bodge of it all ...
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Haha Labour have just suffered their worst defeat for the best part of 80 years and this is all the fanboy's keep saying. The public don't want labour, deal with it.
 
britboy4321 said:
Best of a bad bunch. I believe Brown and team will do a better job at taking us out of this global recession than Cameron's 'take the money out of the economy' system would.
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So you believe the government is the economy and the people's wealth has nothing to do with it?

Sounds like you really know what you're talking about.
 
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