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 .
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"I'm going to hit you".

You realise AV would have given Labour...
My point, tongue in cheek I might add, was that Tories are, basically, giving nothing to the LibDems.

We need standardised constituencies.
 
I'm trying to catch up on the thread, can you all post a bit slower please.
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LOL old age isnt being kind on you is it Johnny lol.

Man i dont know what the hell is going on with the election...all i know so far is that we have a hung parliament...which means no party has complete control does it??.

Brown just resigned today which is a good thing....worst PM ever and unelected as well...shows what a joke this country is if we cant even sort out our govt and get a proper majority.

Personally just call another election and hopefully we might just get a party who has a majority....which then can take control of the country and sort it out.
 
Labour support reform, Lib dems do. Torys oppose it as its their only hope of keeping power as the more media savvy generations come up through and start voting with the correct incentives

Rubbish, Lib Dem support PR< as its their ONLY way to get more seats which they otherwise can't get.

Labour have only RECENTLY started to court Lib Dem and court a coalition with them, as such they all of a sudden want what Lib Dem want.

Torys DO want reform, get it right, proportional representation is ONE OPTION FOR REFORM.

Torys don't want PR, however they do want reform.

AS of several months ago, and for several years Labour wanted no reform, only lately as it became clear even to the incredibly dense Brown, have they suddenly wanted to do exactly what Lib Dems want, after YEARS, actually decades of shifting borders for constituencies to give them the most seats they can get.


Clegg is being a tool, my analogy would be, its like big brother, some tool who had no chance of winning who nobody wanted to win, won some stupid challenge one week, the prize of which, not known before, the choice of who goes up for eviction that week and suddenly he has all the power and everyones being nice to him.

Its a joke, our election has turned into a joke, for MONTHS, or infact years Clegg has staunchly stuck by the opinion that whoever gets the MOST seats NOT the majority, should be PM and anything he does now just makes a mockery of that.

Yes Lib Dem should have gotten maybe more seats in a fairer system, but is it really fair.

If with PR it turned out that Lib Dem got their 28% of the vote, but they came 3rd in EVERY single election in the country, and not a single area actually voted to give Lib Dem a seat, is that fair?

If less than 1/3rd of an area wanted Lib Dem to get a seat, and over 1/3rd wanted Torys to get the seat, is it fair that Lib Dem gets it due to PR and getting a decent portion of the vote.

Make NO mistake, Labour want the current system and have changed the borders over time to give them the most power possible and the best chance. Lib Dem want PR, because they'll end up with FAR more seats than voters actually want them to have. Tory's want minor change, you can be negative and say better borders will give them a better chance, which is completely fair, or you can be positive and say they want better borders, to negate the massive advantage they give to Labour. Both are fair.

When ANYONE prattles on about one party wanting the fairest system, they are talking out of their behind, each party wants the system that would work best for them and its got absolutely **** all to do with fairness.
 
DM I'm glad you don't just talk crap in the SA but in here too.

The incumbent government have nothing to do with the boundaries. Are you going to blame the boundary shift before the 1997 election under a Tory government that gave Labour such a high majority?
 
DM I'm glad you don't just talk crap in the SA but in here too.

The incumbent government have nothing to do with the boundaries. Are you going to blame the boundary shift before the 1997 election under a Tory government that gave Labour such a high majority?

It does however tend to favour the Labour party. As evidenced by the votes/seat and the larger number of smaller constituencies that are Labour run.
 
That's one of the most horrific things I've ever seen. Adam Boulton is an absolute disgrace to his profession, just as Sky 'News' is a putrid excuse for a News Channel. It just sickens me to my stomach seeing this garbage on on UK airwaves, masquerading as the news.

LOL, go Boulton! :D

This whole process is starting to drag on a bit. If I was QE2, I would have dismissed Gordo and installed Cameron as caretaker PM by now.
 
According to the Lib Dems (unconfirmed) Labour are offering AV, straight off, but then also offering a referendum on PR.
If that's true, then the Conservatives don't have a chance...
 
LOL, go Boulton! :D

This whole process is starting to drag on a bit. If I was QE2, I would have dismissed Gordo and installed Cameron as caretaker PM by now.

Cameron has to prove he has the ability to form a government to get the top job, without it Gordon Brown has to stay in power even though it's clear he's a bit fed up of it now :p If he goes doesn't Harman get the top job by default? good god!!! :eek:
 
I think what's reported as happening should be the country's worst nightmare.

I am almost repulsed by the fact that such a crucial constitutional issue as voting and electoral reform is being bandied about and pretty much decided behind closed doors with little to go on. This isn't about fairness or some kind of people's revolution, it's people fighting for power now and in the future.

I will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed in the politics of this country if anything is changed without a new report (the previous one is 12 years old, and considering 12 years before that I wasn't even alive, that's a long time) and a referendum.
 
Are you just trying to provoke me? You failed. ;)

No, I just enjoy a bit of cabaret. :D

If you were the Queen, you would have to do what the constitution says to as well. ;)

IIRC, the constitution doesn't say what the Queen must or must not do in this situation. She has the power to dismiss Gordo and appoint Cameron, though as Halfmad says, Cameron must demonstrate that he can offer a viable government. :)
 
No, I just enjoy a bit of cabaret. :D



The constitution doesn't say what the Queen must or must not do in this situation. She has the power to dismiss Gordo and appoint Cameron. :)
"The constitution" doesn't really say much, as it's just a collection of old bills, acts and precedences. The Queen simply does not have the power or influence to dismiss GB and appoint Cameron. While she retains the authority to do so, it will not be exercised without her first being asked.
 
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