Poll: The official I voted/election results thread

[TwsT]

UKIP get short changed because of the way the voting system is setup. They should get 12% of the seats and not just 1.

and cue the next 5 years of ukipper rhetoric

Proportional rep blah blah

 

[FoxEye]

Wake up, turn the TV on... wow.

What have you people done?!

 

[StriderX]

Or Scottish mps are barred from voting on English only legislation in return for more devolved powers.

My personal holy grail would be Fed.uk

 

[George Hincapie]

A very scary future.
A separated Scotland, EU referendum which will probably end up leaving. And all of us knowing what Greece feels like.

Why is it scary? I am completely comfortable with whatever happens; times change, the World moves on. There's nothing to be scared about. I would prefer Scotland to remain in the Union, but if they choose to go then good luck to them. If am EU Referendum takes place then, while it may be close, I suspect what you'll see is a vote to remain.

 

[robgmun]

So where are the UKIP voters who made £50 bet they would get more than 4 seats?

I want to see screen shots.

You missed it by 3 hours you plumb

 

[George Hincapie]

The problem is if you start changing boundaries, it's very subjective. As you said any changes favour one party over another.

How can can anyone make that call? If you let me do it I'll just make it favour what I want.

Also I believe there are arguments that the electoral register numbers don't properly reflect population numbers. So it depends which you base it on.

Just get rid of boundaries entirely. Vote for a party rather than a named individual for a party.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Wake up, turn the TV on... wow.

What have you people done?!

The Right Thing.

 

[scorza]

Excellent summary in the Telegraph reasoning why Labour lost, in a nutshell, the wrong Leader,elected by the Unions not the grass roots, a man who was unwilling to accept Labours past economic screw ups and instead chose to defend them, a man urged when elected to put a professions team around him, instead he chose ideological soul mates, he had to choose between the centre ground - where Blair succeeded - instead he went for the comfort zone of the left....

Ultimately, a man who made all the wrong choices and thank God he only made those wrong choices for the Labour Party and not for the country as our Prime Minister.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/gen...e-this-election-It-never-tried-to-win-it.html

That's the Tory version, the real version is that Cameron played a blinder having a Scottish independence referendum the year before a general election, whipping up Scottish nationalism and exploiting that fear in England. Above all, he has one hell of an ability getting the English public in particular to swallow his lies, helped in no small part by the dominance of the right-wing media in this country.

 

[Freddie1980]

New speaker of the house for a start lol

As well as sorting out the BBC and it's biased reporting. There's a butt ton of stuff and not just the economy that needs some urgent attention and not that I care either way but I hope they don't waste time on repelling the Fox Hunting ban (disgracefully amount of Parliaments time has been wasted on this non issue over the years already).

 

[Sunbed]

You missed it by 3 hours you plumb

You have my respect for keeping your word!

 

[robgmun]

The problem for Labour is that they don't really have anyone suitable to become the next leader. There is a real deficit in charisma and leadership in Labour, plus they've too many champagne socialists.

Problem is that some people want Chuka Umunna to be the next leader. It'll go down well with the lovey metropolitan elite in the London Boroughs but they forget a great chunk of Labour supporters are white working class in the North and would a lose a bigger chunk of them

 

[Schlong&Stable]

The UK government has to grant a referendum, the SNP have been elected without a mandate for one. In short - they can't have another one, literally no way they can without being elected, including it in their manifesto and shouting about it during an election campaign.

They'd also loose if they had another one, probably worse than they did last year.

The English seem fixated on giving Scotland another one, the SNP are in Westminster to represent us, not break up the UK.

No, there is absolutely no constitutional obligation for Westminster to give a referendum. There might have been a moral obligation given the success of the SNP, but that is all.

Cameron should refuse further referendums. The SNP got one previously on the basis that they would accept the result. Demanding another referendum is not accepting the result.

 

[StriderX]

In retrospect, it must seem...rather damning for our US friends, that helping the US do their dirty deeds, will literally kill a party and ideology.

 

[AtreuS]

and cue the next 5 years of ukipper rhetoric

Proportional rep blah blah

So you think its a good system where the DUP can get 8 MPs from 184,260 total votes taken and ukip get 1 MP from 3,773,402 votes?

You are clearly not a fan of democracy if you think that is anywhere near right.

The current system is totally skewed towards the two big parties. Why do you think they hate reform?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results

 

[Glaucus]

Just get rid of boundaries entirely. Vote for a party rather than a named individual for a party.

You would lose local mps that would be a shame.

The only other option is to count nationally and locally then put in the MPs locally where they had the most votes. And then a fair few areas getting their 2nd choice mp representing them to even out the national average.

 

[sityeuropa]

Right wing media lol.

Conservatives good for the country. Deal with it.

 

[kindai]

Wow!

Woke up and saw the news! Fantastic Result!

 

[joeyjojo]

What major changes are the Tories going to/likely to push through?

The one which will effect us most is more public spending cuts than the last parliament. Since the cuts in the previous made every household about 5 grand poorer and has made us one of the slowest recovering economies in developed world, it's a big problem IMO.

So the Pollsters get wrong again, even the exit polls weren't wholly accurate.

The BBC exit poll was within a few %.

In other news, no more Farrage! Edit: thought I just heard someone say he lost but no results online yet...?

 

[Mucky_Pup]

Glad mansion tax, and (hopefully) 50% income tax has been put to bed for the next 5 years at least, and I'm nowhere near the scale of ever being affected by them.

 

[ubersonic]

I keep wondering if the BBC is wholesale colour-blind, they keep saying Libdems are yellow...i see Orange :|

They are Yellow, just a darker shade than the SNP who are bright yellow.