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 .
Gimpymoo said:
Kay Burley is a horrible woman.
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Maybe but she's annoying a supporter of the Lib Dems, who are entirely cynical and two-faced at the local level - in contrast to their holier than thou performance in front of the national press. In other words I can't think of a more deserving bunch of hypocrites. :D
 
Is there a site which can tell me about all the major voting methods?

With all the PR's, AV's and AV+'s flying around, I need to actually know what they all are :o
 
Gimpymoo said:
Kay Burley is a horrible woman.


Listen to her interuppting without giving him chance to answer.

******* *****.
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To be fair, David Cameron said this would happen (deals behind closed doors) and everyone ignored his warnings

People got the decision they wanted and deserved, so no point moaning about it now. Didn't want a hung parliment? Next time be more decisive
 
Kay Burley has a point. What are they doing there?

They are arrogant members of the public who think they have the right to undermine the electoral system. They've made their votes, their part is done for the moment. Now they need to step back and give the parties a few days to have discussions, not stand behind them breathing down their necks.
 
Gimpymoo said:
Kay Burley is a horrible woman.


Listen to her interuppting without giving him chance to answer.

******* *****.
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As others have said, thats complete rubbish, he kept spouting utter rubbish. Its the classic stereotype of a naive college student who wants a better world. Anyone that constantly says people voted with hope, frankly, deserves to be interrupted and she was the question asker and he kept not answering the question posed to him.

Get it straight he wanted to be on camera to answer questions and her job is to ask them, he was talking like a blathering fool and she wasn't having it. I dislike her, but she did nothing wrong there.


As for proportional representation, I'm not sure its fair OR would end up giving us a fair result after a LOT of people would screw it up.

I'm not sure if same sized constituencies would be fair either, fairer, maybe, but its liable to change the results hugely anyway.

I'm not sure there is a fair system as a fairly large minority hate each system, so whats the fairest?

Frankly I think the main issue is Brown, he was never elected, a back room deal to force a new leader upon us.


I think the best system would be to vote for PM independently of the seats/local council. If we had a system like that Brown would likely never have been elected ever, he CERTAINLY wouldn't be elected this time with such a minority of votes he wouldn't be able to claim anything. Likewise, if people actually like Labour and their policies, they could vote them in but NOT Brown.

Infact, a more US style system, which has MASSIVE downsides, might be best for us. Where a year before the election essentially the leader of the party gets voted for. Had that happened, it would have been almost impossible for Brown to have won the nomination so Labour would likely have gone into this election with a different leader.

Theres lots of options and I'm not sure which is the right, or perfect option. But I really think voting in a party, who can change their leader any time, who can change the direction of the policies and his manifesto as he pleases is the worst thing about the whole system.
 
Klo said:
Is there a site which can tell me about all the major voting methods?

With all the PR's, AV's and AV+'s flying around, I need to actually know what they all are :o
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Wiki. I'd write a summary but I'm drunk and it would be biased :D :D Someone should (Sir Dolph - I#m looking at you).
 
Election Prime Minister University
1945 Clement Atlee Oxford
1950 Clement Atlee Oxford
1951 Winston Churchill no university
1955 Antony Eden Oxford
1959 Harold Macmillan Oxford
1964 Harold Wilson Oxford
1966 Harold Wilson Oxford
1970 Edward Heath Oxford
1974 Harold Wilson Oxford
1974 Harold Wilson Oxford
1979 Margaret Thatcher Oxford
1982 Margaret Thatcher Oxford
1987 Margaret Thatcher Oxford
1992 John Major no university
1997 Tony Blair Oxford
2001 Tony Blair Oxford
2005 Tony Blair Oxford

Looks like Gordo has no chance of being PM :D
 
gambitt said:
Kay Burley has a point. What are they doing there?

They are arrogant members of the public who think they have the right to undermine the electoral system. They've made their votes, their part is done for the moment. Now they need to step back and give the parties a few days to have discussions, not stand behind them breathing down their necks.
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She doesn't to be fair. People didn't vote for a hung parliament, they voted for the party which best suited their ideas and personal situations. Her spouting "65% of the electorate voted for a hung parliament" over and over is therefor tripe. The hung parliament fiasco is due to an utterly crap way of how a political party gets into power. I didn't vote conservative but they scored well over a million more votes than any other party nationally, why they can't get into power just off the back of that alone then seats get divided up based on the % of the national vote is beyond me.

To sum it up, the guy getting interviewed wasn't the brightest star in the galaxy and the woman interviewing him was clearly having a bad day.
 
ghost101 said:
Election Prime Minister University
Looks like Gordo has no chance of being PM :D
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Edinburgh is a *fantastic* university. And... he has been PM. :D

James J said:
She doesn't to be fair. People didn't vote for a hung parliament, they voted for the party which best suited their ideas and personal situations. Her spouting "65% of the electorate voted for a hung parliament" over and over is therefor tripe.
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It is a logical connection. Similar to saying people that vote BNP are most likely racist.
 
What Kay Burley was spouting is nothing different to the Labour spinsters constantly stating that "xx% of the country voted against David Cameron".

They are the people that started that kind of statement.
 
James J said:
why they can't get into power just off the back of that alone then seats get divided up based on the % of the national vote is beyond me.
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Tories 'won'. End of. Although they can't control a majority in the commons - so it would be an unstable government. Herin lies the problem. I believe it need not be a problem if the LibDems realise how important a government is at the momemnt and they can stay silent for a year or two (abstaining on Queen's/Budget) and let Dave have a minority government. If they stayed silent it would even cover rebel Tory back benchers.
 
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