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Poll: *** 2010 General Election Result & Discussion ***
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't Proportional Representation almost guarantee a hung parliament every single election?
maybe he's on the phone to the 'others' if not and he tries to go alone it will be very bad for the country.
Don't forget the cons and libs strongly disagree on some significant policies.
Since when are polls always accurate? Look at what happened to the Lib Dems - apparently they were in the lead at one point.
As Dolph and many others have said, some people would vote for paedobear if they stuck a red rosette on him. They would never vote for the "nasty tories" who will take away their benefits and make them go back to work. Let's also not forget the increase in immigrants also bolsters support for labour.
The Conservatives were in a position whereby they had virtually already won the election in many peoples minds, totally dominating many polls, and they've gone from that to a hung parliament. They were up against a massively out of favour Labour party and leader and still couldn't outright win.
It can't be viewed as anything other than failure frankly.
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yes, i think it's a crap idea, just redraw the bounderes to make it fairer
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I believe the majority of people that remember both will consider the Thatcher ending to be worse than Brown.
She got ousted by her own party remember. She was reading PRE-PRINTED conclusions to cabinet meetings, before the meeting had taken place.
Basically, she went a bit mental at the end.
No matter how ridiculous it sounds, Thatcher at the end was worse than Brown was. As ridiculous as it sounds, we could do worse than Brown. We have done worse in the past. And of course everything is relative.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, but the Conservatives haven't been in a poll position to form a majority for many months. Let's be frank, every party has failed, but the biggest losers of the night have to be Labour and the Lib-Dems, Labour for, well, getting annihilated and the Lib-Dems for an embarassing result on the back of CleggMania.
No, I gave you nearly 100 years of examples from one country.
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Thatcher inherited a ruined country and did very well considering the circumstances, she paved the way for a recovery and the boom that Labour ended up inheriting in 1997.
Brown/Blair inherited a booming economy and have subsequently ruined the country financially. They've created a huge public sector, the legacy of which will be high unemployment and massive government spending.
How can Thatcher be worse? She inherited an awful situation and turned things around, Brown inherited a great situation and turned it into an obscenely bad one.
I'm no Tory loyalist, but it strikes me as completely moronic to vote for Labour after the last thirteen years, especially if the main reason is a feint memory of what one woman was perceived to have done thirty years ago.
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No they couldn't - they'd only have 314 seats with Unionist support. They need the Lib-Dems to have a workable majority.
No. Why would it? It doesn't in Australia.
anecdotal. It's anecdotal evidence. Trust me
History is not "anecdotal evidence." I can't trust you because you appear barely intelligent enough to operate a cat flap.
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With the whole reform bandwagon, one idea to put in the mix...
Students vote at their home constituency, not at their university constituency. Here in Bath amongst the students there's a massive 'ZOMG FACEBOOK SAID LIB-DEMS IS COOL' thing and loads of people reckon that if the students weren't voting here the result would be the Conservatives winning instead...
Students vote at their home constituency, not at their university constituency. Here in Bath amongst the students there's a massive 'ZOMG FACEBOOK SAID LIB-DEMS IS COOL' thing and loads of people reckon that if the students weren't voting here the result would be the Conservatives winning instead...
I think in real times it was a given that Labour were going to bomb, they were never going to be close to winning, they've performed as expected, maybe slightly better. Lib Dems have underachieved compared to expectations somewhat and the Conservatives have underachieved quite substantially.