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 .
Von Smallhausen said:
I find it astounding that he is clinging on.

Even a Lib/Lab coalition would likely have his resignation as a pre-condition.
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He's "clinging on" as you put it because he is still the PM until someone else is in a position to form a government. He's doing nothing wrong yet. I think he knows the game is up for him now.
 
Westyfield2 said:
I dispair at my Facebook homepage these last few weeks.

Can I just delete all my friends and add OcUK'ers instead?



One thing I've just noticed today, the pound reached a one year low :( :rolleyes: :mad:.

On Wednesday I converted $893.25 to be £591.82. Today it's £603.42. For any other Apple fanboys that's the price of a 64GB iPad 3G including sales tax in Raleigh North Carolina.

At close today 1 GBP = 1.48030 USD.


Whatever happened to the days of £1=$2? :( :(
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2007 was the last time. But before that you have to look back to the early 90's. The 70's were the best when it hit $2.5 to the pound. In the 80's we had a long period of not much more than a dollar and in 1985 it almost hit one dollar to the pound.:eek:

To be fair since 2008 the pound has been steadily declining so no surprise we are on a one year low.
 
Evangelion said:
Absolutely; I imagine it would be the first card on the table.

Something tells me Mandelson and Balls have spent the last few hours talking urgently to their respective supporters within the party...
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I find Balls and Mandelson as leader as bad tasting as Gordon Brown and I have a feeling the electorate would as well.
 
scorza said:
He's "clinging on" as you put it because he is still the PM until someone else is in a position to form a government. He's doing nothing wrong yet. I think he knows the game is up for him now.
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JohnnyG said:
Would they need his resignation?
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Rules are we can't be without a PM for more than one hour. However, if he didn;t resign and the Conservatives couldn't put forward a workable government then Cameron would not be accepted as PM.

I think Gordon knows the game is up and is just being a caretaker until Con/Lib dem announce they have reached a deal.
 
If Brown resigns and Cameron can't put together a deal, wouldn't that make Harriet Harman Prime Minister

:eek: :eek: :eek:
 
If Ed Balls became leader of Labour, I'd start a real hate campaign against them.

Although it would probably guarantee they wouldn't see power until he quit :p

What a tool he really really is. Spanner.
 
JohnnyG said:
Out of interest, what was a "decent time"?
I don't know anyone who couldn't vote because of congestion but have a feeling that some who were involved turned up about 9.45pm expecting to be in & out in 2 minutes then threw a wobbly when they realised they couldn't :)
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A range, some from 7pm onwards, one person I know there turned up no later than 8, and only just voted. Of course like any seat people must have turned up at the last minute (not just students). But a large number of students did turn up well within time, and so to find a station under manned, and then be effectively thrown to the back of the queue so locals who arrived later can vote is frankly a joke.
 
Clarkson for PM! :p


( while a silly notion, i wonder how he would actually fare... probably about as badly as everyone else who does the job i bet :p )

As for those unable to vote.

You SHOULD be able to turn up at 5 to 10 and be able to cast a ballot... there should be the facilities in place to you allow you to. If not the returning officer and officials have failed in their duty.

To me it just shows the contempt that those in positions of authority show for the whole process... we dont live in the kind of society that was around when the whole system was thought up... it simply isnt upto the job anymore.
 
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scorza said:
He's "clinging on" as you put it because he is still the PM until someone else is in a position to form a government. He's doing nothing wrong yet. I think he knows the game is up for him now.
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I didn't say he was doing anything wrong.

He is an intelligent man so surely he knows the game is up. He doesn't have a mandate, never has had a mandate and his party has been rejected by the electorate.

No need for a snot-o-gram. :)
 
Gideon Lorr said:
A range, some from 7pm onwards, one person I know there turned up no later than 8, and only just voted. Of course like any seat people must have turned up at the last minute (not just students). But a large number of students did turn up well within time, and so to find a station under manned, and then be effectively thrown to the back of the queue so locals who arrived later can vote is frankly a joke.
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What reason did they give the students? Something to do with having the option of 2 places to vote?
 
easyrider said:
Trident?
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Trident is an interesting one, because Clegg says he supports a nuclear deterrant but not replacing trident, despite this being the cheapest and most useful option.

So he's either not telling the truth about one part or another or is having to take a position due to his party...
 
Von Smallhausen said:
I didn't say he was doing anything wrong.

He is an intelligent man so surely he knows the game is up. He doesn't have a mandate, never has had a mandate and his party has been rejected by the electorate.

No need for a snot-o-gram. :)
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You said he was clinging on, which I thought implied that you thought he was doing something wrong. Apologies if my message came across as a snot-o-gram - it wasn't intended that way :)
 
The funny thing is that from his speech, all Cameron had to do was accede to a referendum on voting reform and I reckon he could be in No10 already.

Would it really be so hard to say "Ok we'll agree to a referendum, but will campaign for FPTP"? Or does he realise that such a campaign might ostracise the Tories from the general public?

I don't quite understand the dogmatic opposal to a referendum of all things, I can understand the opposition if what was being asked for was a direct change. It smacks of hypocrisy when the Tories spent so many years campaigning for a referendum on the EU on the basis of 'let the people decide' yet will not give the electorate the benefit of a choice on voting reform.
 
Rich_L said:
If Brown resigns and Cameron can't put together a deal, wouldn't that make Harriet Harman Prime Minister

:eek: :eek: :eek:
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Thankfully not, I believe that if Gordon Brown resigns then the leader of the party with the most seats in the House of Commons becomes Prime Minister. I could be wrong, but I don't think I am on this one.
 
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