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    #51
    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    It got 12% of the vote and 0.15% of the seats.

    CleanBehindTheFRidge party?
    so well over twice the votes of the Third Party (SNP) & 1.5 times the votes of Lib dems. They needed to get enough votes to be taken seriously as a new party they did that.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...election,_2015

    Next time if they had fielded decent policies & candidates they could have got a few seats.

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      #52
      hmm..could labour party supporters vote against their own party to ensure a massive defeat and thereby ending JC's reign ? Depends on what is more important, narrowing their losses and keep JC or widen the losses and get a new leader

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        #53
        Originally posted by jbond007 View Post
        hmm..could labour party supporters vote against their own party to ensure a massive defeat and thereby ending JC's reign ? Depends on what is more important, narrowing their losses and keep JC or widen the losses and get a new leader
        Depends where they live.
        "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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          #54
          Originally posted by jbond007 View Post
          hmm..could labour party supporters vote against their own party to ensure a massive defeat and thereby ending JC's reign ? Depends on what is more important, narrowing their losses and keep JC or widen the losses and get a new leader
          This is why tactical voting doesn't work, because although everyone has the same aim they apply different tactics.

          I'm alright Jack

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            #55
            Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
            This is why tactical voting doesn't work, because although everyone has the same aim they apply different tactics.

            It works on a constituency level but not on a national level.
            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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              #56
              Originally posted by jbond007 View Post
              hmm..could labour party supporters vote against their own party to ensure a massive defeat and thereby ending JC's reign ? Depends on what is more important, narrowing their losses and keep JC or widen the losses and get a new leader
              But then you end up with a local MP of the wrong flavour. In day to day issues that could be a big deal.
              Originally posted by MaryPoppins
              I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
              Originally posted by vetran
              Urine is quite nourishing

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                #57
                Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                People died so you could vote
                Vote for the Monster Raving loonies or Greens if you must, but vote.
                No they didn't.

                People died in order that you have the RIGHT to a Vote.
                Something very different indeed.

                If it ever becomes compulsory then it will have moved away from being a hard-won freedom, and become simply another obligation. And nobody died to impose that upon us.

                An important distinction which, like so many other things down through the years, has clearly gone over sasguru's empty head.

                “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                  #58
                  In fairness to sas, it's equally possible it went straight through his empty head.

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                    #59
                    Originally posted by vetran View Post
                    so well over twice the votes of the Third Party (SNP) & 1.5 times the votes of Lib dems. They needed to get enough votes to be taken seriously as a new party they did that.

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...election,_2015

                    Next time if they had fielded decent policies & candidates they could have got a few seats.
                    The difference being that the SNP got 50% of the vote across the seats that they stood in. Had Ukip done that you'd have been bowing to Prime Minister Farage as the most popular PM in recent history.
                    When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....

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                      #60
                      Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
                      The difference being that the SNP got 50% of the vote across the seats that they stood in. Had Ukip done that you'd have been bowing to Prime Minister Farage as the most popular PM in recent history.
                      Many people were voting against Tories or Labour.

                      UKIP were a wasted vote as they didn't expect to get a decent showing,

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