Proof of BBC Bias

[swamp]

The Tory vote tends to be very inefficient. Many of their safe seats are a bit too safe, particularly the true-blue wealthy rural constituencies. Also other less rural (but wealthy) seats they should be winning have tipped to the Lib Dems in recent years, eg Guildford and Richmond.

[SueEllen]

To a degree, the Tories did some Gerrymandering in their time (as it's called).
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Part of that was due to people disappearing because of the poll tax.

All those people who don't put themselves on the electoral role cause problems for the rest of us. Regardless of whether they can vote or not as this is why boundaries change.

[Green Mango]

To a degree, the Tories did some Gerrymandering in their time (as it's called).

But what's happened in the past decade would make Robert Mugabe swell with pride. How can a party come a clear 3rd in the popular vote and yet still end up with more MP's

But yes, I agree with you - why are people so accepting of this.

Well thats easy, Hung Parliments have not been very successful in the world generaly.

[centurian]

I don't understand why more hasn't been made of the boundaries being changed to obviously favour Labour.

To a degree, the Tories did some Gerrymandering in their time (as it's called).

But what's happened in the past decade would make Robert Mugabe swell with pride. How can a party come a clear 3rd in the popular vote and yet still end up with more MP's

But yes, I agree with you - why are people so accepting of this.

[VectraMan]

Democracy my arse!!!

If you look at the old results, with today's boundaries, 1992 would have been a hung parliment, Thatcher's landslide in 1979 would have been a very small majority, and 1974's hung parliment would have actually been a Labour majority.

I don't understand why more hasn't been made of the boundaries being changed to obviously favour Labour.

[VectraMan]

Maybe I'm just being thick this morning, but how does this prove BBC bias?

[stek]

On those numbers I'm getting
With this selection there is a hung parliament. The Conservatives are the largest party, but are short of a majority by 36 seats.
maybe it's random bias.

I got;

I have come to know the parliament is hanging, isn't it? Mastek is the largest outsourced party, but is having a shortness of majority by 3600 ICT visas...

[NickFitz]

If you go to the election seat calculator, set the Lib Dems to 46, others to 24, labour and conservative to 290[/I]

I tried to follow your instructions but the sliders represent percentages, not numbers of seats, and after several minutes of dicking about I couldn't work out what percentages were needed to reproduce your findings. Perhaps you could give us figures we can actually replicate via the user interface provided?

Oh, and you might want to look up the word "proof" in your dictionary.

[NotAllThere]

I blame the testers to the software.

[thunderlizard]

If you go to the election seat calculator, set the Lib Dems to 46, others to 24, labour and conservative to 290. Then the conclusion is:

With this selection there is a hung parliament. Labour are the largest party, but are short of a majority by 36 seats.

On those numbers I'm getting
With this selection there is a hung parliament. The Conservatives are the largest party, but are short of a majority by 36 seats.
maybe it's random bias.

[shaunbhoy]

If you go to the election seat calculator, set the Lib Dems to 46, others to 24, labour and conservative to 290. Then the conclusion is:

With this selection there is a hung parliament. Labour are the largest party, but are short of a majority by 36 seats.

I am sure I saw an item on the Beeb the other day highlighting the current poll positions. Labour and LibDems both had 28% and the Tories had 32%. They then extrapolated those figures to show just how that would translate to the number of seats gained. It came out as Labour with 270+, Conservatives with 240+, and the LibDems with 90+.
Unbelievable!!! In essence, for the same number of votes cast, NL get 3 MPs to every 1 that the LibDems get, and they are far better off than the Tories too.
Democracy my arse!!!

[threaded]

Never attribute to ill-will what can be explained by incompetence.

Wow, not 2 seconds ago I put that on FB and here is the same quote. Must be the weather.

[expat]

Never attribute to ill-will what can be explained by incompetence.

[NotAllThere]

If you go to the election seat calculator, set the Lib Dems to 46, others to 24, labour and conservative to 290. Then the conclusion is:

With this selection there is a hung parliament. Labour are the largest party, but are short of a majority by 36 seats.