General Election Vote

(09-05-2015 11:04 )munch1917 Wrote:  But they have 50% fewer MP's than before the election.

What an electoral system we have. UKIP quadruple their vote and somehow end up with less seats than they had before.

(09-05-2015 10:55 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Got a feeling that the tories will try to get bercow thrown out as speaker and replaced by my MP lynsey hoyle

Ah that's where you are, roundabouts and all

UKIP's 12% was purely* protest voters who would previously have gone Lib Dem. Since Farage seems to prefer Carswell not being leader, I don't see them doing that greatly in 2020. Particularly if we've had the bloody referendum they're so keen on.

*alright, mostly

(09-05-2015 18:52 )Doddle Wrote:  

(09-05-2015 10:55 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Got a feeling that the tories will try to get bercow thrown out as speaker and replaced by my MP lynsey hoyle

Ah that's where you are, roundabouts and all

Roundabouts and all ? got no more roundabouts than anywhere else

nah live where thes a nice cake and a radio station thats coming in your ears

I gotta laugh at people who say UKIP is dead. they are proberly the same ones who said the SNP were dead when there was a clear NO Vote for independence . I can see next election even if there is a NO vote to leaving europe there will be the same thing will be those who are anti europe joing UKIP in numbers and will be voting and if there is a change in the voting system

its gonna be funny in 2017 will have the SNP campaigning with the Cameron Goverment against UKIP

I see there has been calls for proportional representation in the losers camp and let me make it clear that I firmly oppose any such change to the law as it would immediately put the Scottish votes at a disadvantage.

So what if the population on London is on a par with the entire Scottish population, it's hardly our fault if that's where you chose to live but yet again this ludicrous suggestion that proportional representation would make voting more democratic. Would it fuck. The SNP gain a record 56 seats and the English based party's who lost can't even admit defeat.

Is it any wonder why the people of Scotland want to break up the United Kingdom

(10-05-2015 03:42 )Scottishbloke Wrote:  I see there has been calls for proportional representation in the losers camp and let me make it clear that I firmly oppose any such change to the law as it would immediately put the Scottish votes at a disadvantage.

So what if the population on London is on a par with the entire Scottish population, it's hardly our fault if that's where you chose to live but yet again this ludicrous suggestion that proportional representation would make voting more democratic. Would it fuck. The SNP gain a record 56 seats and the English based party's who lost can't even admit defeat.

Is it any wonder why the people of Scotland want to break up the United Kingdom

So when its undemocratic agianst scots you keep bleating on and on about it but when its the rest of the country then its fine

I dont care the tories won

seriously the left are serious bad losers they blame everybody but themselves and their policys for there losses christ the guff that was coming out of kinnock and livingstone

we have used the same voting system for god knows how long and I cannot understand why if UKIP got so much share of the vote they only got 1 MP elected! Not to mention the exit polls were slightly off beam too
If we did go down the PR route and it produces more hung parliaments and coalition governments then so be it because I think it would be better as a whole for the whole nation as that would make the government
& MP's work harder (Stop them playing Candy crush in committees!!) for the good of the nation. Other than that I think when it commons to commons votes then a public vote should be allowed so they know what the public feel.
Even so I don't there is a chance in hell the EU referendum will happen because when they are talking about the size of the welfare cuts they wish to implement to reduce the deficit, then once again they will defer the referendum as the cuts will not make it possible. I think the welfare cuts (if there is a vote), will be an early test of the Government's programme.
If we are going to get a referendum it won't be in this parliament that is for sure, So that will be one broken pledge already! And as for his meetings with the EU, I think Mr Cameron will come back from those meetings empty handed as some other member state will use their veto to block him.

(10-05-2015 03:42 )Scottishbloke Wrote:  this ludicrous suggestion that proportional representation would make voting more democratic. Would it fuck. The SNP gain a record 56 seats

56 seats out of 59, and yet half the voters didn't vote for them. Is that democratic?

The SNP has long been an advocate of PR, it'll be interesting to see if they become hypocrites now.

(10-05-2015 04:31 )babelover48 Wrote:  Not to mention the exit polls were slightly off

Well there is a simple reason as to why the exit poles were wrong because yet again as I entered and left the polling station I was approached by nobody as to which way I voted and it was hardly like I was walking at a fast pace or anything what with my ankle and stuff

I also predict that this might be the last General Election where we'll be using the old fashioned pencil and ballet paper. We live in a world of technology now so I think the method might be via computer next time. I still think we'll have a polling station but I strongly suspect in future elections that the result might well be known within minutes of the stations closing which means the days of doing an allnighter could be a thing of the past.

Exit Poll then followed by actual Poll I think will be the future. Although traditionalists would also argue a case for the former I'd imagine.

(10-05-2015 04:43 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  56 seats out of 59, and yet half the voters didn't vote for them. Is that democratic?

The SNP has long been an advocate of PR, it'll be interesting to see if they become hypocrites now.

Yes it is democratic because nobody puts a gun to your head and forces you to vote. Some people choose not to and it's there right to if you do not believe strongly enough in any one candidate or Party.

Also shame on you voting Torie after the way they single handily destroyed Scotland in the 80's which will never be forgotten.

(10-05-2015 04:52 )Scottishbloke Wrote:  Also shame on you voting Torie after the way they single handily destroyed Scotland in the 80's which will never be forgotten.

I'm not ashamed, in the slightest, of any vote I've ever made. And nor should anyone be.