General Election Thread 2015

[eek]

Ho Hum.

UKIP+GREENS = 5 million votes. One seat each?

Maybe now we will find out exactly where the £18bn cuts are going to fall ...

Don't care. The project I'm working on will now never die....

[Platypus]

As usual we're going to be governed by a party for whom >75% of the electorate did not vote.

Turnout approx 70% ... tough tit, people should stop moaning and vote if they want representation

[FatLazyContractor]

Happiest person of the day

[unixman]

They will, but we'll see how permanent his resignation is. Suzanne Evans is his likeliest successor.

That said, provided the referendum goes ahead and Cameron is replaced by a relatively laissez faire Eurosceptic type, I'm not awfully bothered.

Still sad to see Farage go. Whatever you think of his politics, he is right about being the only leader outside of the Westminster group think. Also he is an interesting/funny bloke. He can take some comfort in the fact that he helped write the Labour and Conservative manifestos, both parties falling over themselves to echo UKIP policies.

[EternalOptimist]

Thanks for the analysis gloat. Ho hum. I note the Greens doubled their vote and my pension portfolio is up on the post-election surge , and coincidentally the Halifax announced a 1.6% rise in property values this morning ... maybe I'll bring my retirement/emigration plans forward ...

I noticed a large swing from the Argentinians in Arran South. must be the Falklanders vote

[unixman]

Oh and it was good to see the smug Pub Landlord lose. Like him as a comedian though.

[MarillionFan]

The DUP

[PurpleGorilla]

Under proportianl representation the results would look like:

1. CON| 36.8% | 239
2. LAB| 30.5% | 198
3. UKIP| 12.6% | 82
4. LIB| 7.8% | 51
5. SNP| 4.8% | 31
6. GRN| 3.8% | 25
7. Other| 3.7% | 24

So with FPTP we are more likely to get a majority government, is that good or bad though after our first taste of a coalition since the war

Wow, we have to get PR in!

[vetran]

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.

They just had 'Two Names' on the Beeb, he was reminding us that they have already legislated for boundary changes to make the vote fairer and for 600 MPs. Comes into force Novembr 2018.

we can have 3 MPs for Scotland. save a fortune.

[SimonMac]

Wow, we have to get PR in!

Why would either of the two (three?) main parties want to weaken their position, only people who would want it is UKIP and the Greens and no one listens to them