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 .
Cameron is now apparently the new PM, soon to be officially announced.

My friend knows a Tory PM of some form and he has just told me that "there are cars behind No 10 removing stuff, cameron on his way to CPHQ, and my mate the mp tells me its all gone through".

We'll see shortly I guess, though it may may not be a big surprise to everyone.:p
 
May still not be over...........yet

Cameron needs 75% of the party's support to get the deal he made with the Lib Dem's through.
 
Is it just me or does anyone else hate Kay Burley? I mean it's interesting hearing her being confrontational to politicians, but my god she's a cold, smug, arrogant POS. I laughed when they were chanting for her to be sacked the other day.
 
deuse said:
10,706,647 people voted for the Con's and over 19,604,358 voted against the Con's.

Which shows that most people don't want them in.
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How can people be so thoroughly obtuse.

I'm honestly, well, a bit high, and tired and can't be bothered doing the exact numbers but, didn't around 22million not want Labour in, and around 25million not want Lib dem in.

Heck, by those numbers, a full 47million didn't want Labour or Lib Dem in when you add them together, when you multiply that out by the answer to everythingin the universe (42), a full 1,974,000,000 didn't want Labour or Lib Dem in.


Yes, everyone can make up moronic numbers that mean nothing.

By EVERY SINGLE possible count Tory won, they got more seats than either party and more votes than either party. The other parties, got less votes, meaning more people wanted the Torys in than wanted Labour, or Lib Dem, less people didn't vote for Torys, than people didn't vote for Labour or Lib Dem.
 
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Richdog said:
Cameron is now apparently the new PM, soon to be officially announced.

My friend knows a Tory PM of some form and he has just told me that "there are cars behind No 10 removing stuff, cameron on his way to CPHQ, and my mate the mp tells me its all gone through".

We'll see shortly I guess, though it may may not be a big surprise to everyone.:p
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Your mate has access to the BBC website then. Wow, cool. :p
 
z3r0 said:
1) Conservative - Liberal coalition lasting a couple of years with lots of concessions
2) Conservative minority government with Liberal support on crucial votes leading to a quick election?
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Probably the former. Despite the fuss about the Lib Dem vote not hitting the "Cleggmania" expectations, fact is, the Tories did the worst out of all of them in this election. Against Brown, after 13 years of Labour, with the deficit and the recession he should have waltzed into number 10.

If the Tories go back to the electorate swiftly having failed to make a good job of running the country they'll likely find that a Labour Party that's dumped it's unpopular leader and is ready to fight afresh is a more effective opposition than the one they just narrowly defeated.
 
drunkenmaster said:
How can people be so thoroughly obtuse.
By EVERY SINGLE possible count Tory won, they got more seats than either party and more votes than either party. The other parties, got less votes, meaning more people wanted the Torys in than wanted Labour, or Lib Dem, less people didn't vote for Torys, than people didn't vote for Labour or Lib Dem.
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They did not win FFS! What is it with you people? If they won why did they need to form a coalition?
 
Dj_Jestar said:
His point, and the point of the FPTP system, is that more people voted against any one party, than the number of people who voted for anyone party.
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We're not in a two party system, its not remotely surprising, has Labour ever won 50% of the vote? Have the Tories or Lib dem, I wouldn't be surprised at some point if that were true, but what % of the vote did Labour have in their last 3 elections(well 4 counting this one).

What difference does it make how many people didn't vote for a party, its completely retarded thinking, more people didn't vote for Torys than did vote, so they shouldn't win.

Thats been true of the winning party for many years and will be true for most elections in the future. Our election has never, and will never be about winning 51% of the votes.
 
Greebo said:
I must admit, I saw a conservative MP been interviewed post election and i felt the same. He stated it was Cameron's fault that they hadn't won a majority as i quote "Cameron went into too much detail leading up to the election. The voting public cannot handle that much detail and it went over the voters head and they didn't understand him and he should have kept things simple with the voters"
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Exactly the same attitude a tory MP had on the BBC news 5 minutes ago.

Tory: "I personally would campaign for FPTP. PR is too complicated and would only confuse voters."
BBC: "But it worked in Scotland?"
Tory: "No no. Scottish voters were terribly confused by the whole thing."

Presumably, they were so confused by PR that they voted LibDem and Labour, when they were all trying to vote Tory? :D
 
The Mad Rapper said:
They did not win FFS! What is it with you people? If they won why did they need to form a coalition?
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Errm, they DON'T.

IF Lib Dem join with no one, whose installed? yes, the winner of the election, the Torys.

I wish people KNEW what they were talking about.

Torys WON the election, however its a constitutional right that the encumbant PM can TRY to form a coalition that would provide a majority count of seats in the house.

That has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ELECTION.

If Labour and Lib dem get together, they have the PM and the majority in the house, TORYS STILL WON THE ELECTION.

They are simply not the same thing, the election has been, and gone, Torys won, what happens after is part of well, how our government is run, it is not the election, they are two separate things.

If no coalition is formed at all between anyone, Torys take the seat, Tories can form the government with THEIR CURRENT NUMBER OF SEATS if Lib Dem and Labour don't form a coalition government. The only reason they are actively courting Lib dem, is to prevent them joining with Labour. If Clegg just came out and said theres no way in hell he'll join Labour, Torys would be in No 10 tonight. However its not in Clegg's interest to make it clear he won't join Labour, because while the question is still unanswered he'll be offered everything but the shirt off Cameron/Browns back to NOT join with the other side.
 
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Mr Jack said:
Probably the former. Despite the fuss about the Lib Dem vote not hitting the "Cleggmania" expectations, fact is, the Tories did the worst out of all of them in this election.
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So the Conservatives did the worst out of all of them in this election? Really? Honestly? I am struggling to see how even the most dyed in the wool labour supporter can really suggest that the Conservatives did the worst. They certainly didn't do as well as they needed, but to say they did "the worst" is basically ignoring reality.
 
Merlin5 said:
Is it just me or does anyone else hate Kay Burley? I mean it's interesting hearing her being confrontational to politicians, but my god she's a cold, smug, arrogant POS. I laughed when they were chanting for her to be sacked the other day.
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Yes, I despise her, she is one of the worst people on TV at the moment.
 
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