General Election Thread 2015

[MicrosoftBob]

Like almost every election this one was decided in England by English voters.

Now about that Barnett formula

[minestrone]

With 30% of the vote IIRC. So if 70% of Scots wanted a UK based party there's not much point in another referendum.

Exactly.

[stek]

Can someone explain to me how the Duckworth-Lewis Method fits in with all this?

[SimonMac]

Can someone explain to me how the Duckworth-Lewis Method fits in with all this?

If you know what the D/L method is you are happy after last nights results, if you know the offside rule you are sad

[stek]

If you know what the D/L method is you are happy after last nights results, if you know the offside rule you are sad

Under D/L, UKIP won by and innings and 4 million dead boat-people.....

[Batcher]

With 30% of the vote IIRC. So if 70% of Scots wanted a UK based party there's not much point in another referendum.

You don't RC

SNP had over 50% of the vote. As I said before we were in a win/win situation. 6 Months of Cameron's cuts and people will be clamoring for the SNP to put Indyref2 into their manifesto for next year. The 56 MPs will do their best but if they (and therefore Scotland) are sidelined then Indyref2 is coming soon.

I've only had about 3 hours sleep in 30 hours, brilliant party last night in Livingston watching the results come in with the SNP branch members then joined by our new MP Hannah Bardell who overturned a Labour majority to now have the 4th largest majority in Scotland.

Coffee and andrenalin keeping me going today.

[unixman]

No it's not. They may have received 12% of the National vote, but we don't vote nationally. We vote locally. In contrast, what you are saying is that you would be happy if someone got 100% of the vote in their constituency, their party only got 2% of the vote nationally and so they were not elected. How would an independent ever get a seat?
The only way to win a single seat would be to have a national party gaining a decent % of the overall vote, as no 1 candidate could be elected without this.

FPP system works well with only one or two large parties, like we have had for 40 years. Not so well where in the current circumstances. It leads to a large part of the population being ignored. You can't really do that in a democracy. Viz the absurdity of UKIP requiring 3.4 million votes per seat, tories and labour more like 40,000. I have always been staunch supporter of FPP but reconsidering now.

[saptastic]

I'm surprised and happy with the result but would have preferred another LibCon coalition TBH.

Not a Ukip voter but I think it is scandalous that they can receive 12% of the vote and get 1 seat. Worrying and undemocratic.

Labour needs to remove from their front bench everyone involved in the Brown govt. They should have done that 5 years ago.

I know that is the system but 12% of the vote = <1% of the seats doesnt seem representative. More votes than the SNP but they get over 50 seats vs UKIP 1.

Labour were doomed when they elected the wrong Milliband in error.

[SimonMac]

You don't RC

SNP had over 50% of the vote. As I said before we were in a win/win situation. 6 Months of Cameron's cuts and people will be clamoring for the SNP to put Indyref2 into their manifesto for next year. The 56 MPs will do their best but if they (and therefore Scotland) are sidelined then Indyref2 is coming soon.

It was a UK election, not a Scottish one, SNP had 4.8% of the vote not 50%.

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