And with nearly 10 years of having their hands tied by coalitions and minority numbers imagine the free for all they'll pursue now
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Originally posted by charlesr View PostI have not fact checked this cos at work on my lunch, but read that:
Labour: 50K votes per seat
Conservatives: 38K votes per seat
And that Labour got way more votes than they did when they won outright in 2005.
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Originally posted by charlesr View PostGreens got 800,000 and SNP only got 1.5x that. But greens got one seat and SNP got 48
But at the same time, you might dislike one of the rules of Monopoly, but if you rock up to a Monopoly tournament, you can't play with a losing strategy that would win if the rules were fairer, and claim you should be the winner. You go home a loser, and it's even even worse if it's the third tournament you've attended with that approach.
The day after a lost election is not the time to complain that the system is unfair; it's to work out how, next time, you're going to game the **** out of it, wrap its rules around your little finger, cheat, beg, steal, bribe the judges, play as a boss character, pick an OP item and approach polling day with a poker hand of five aces.
Then, once you're in power, you can try to fix things... But this election has proven that trying to be honest and appeal to the good nature of people is not the solution. You need to lie and appeal to the "haves", because evidently they get to choose what happens.
This is also why I feel I'm done with politics, because saying that stuff above makes me almost ill. I think I've finally turned that corner and any idealism I once had is totally gone.
I thought we were better than this.
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Originally posted by Asura View PostI'm not debating whether the system's broken; it's totally broken.
But at the same time, you might dislike one of the rules of Monopoly, but if you rock up to a Monopoly tournament, you can't play with a losing strategy that would win if the rules were fairer, and claim you should be the winner. You go home a loser, and it's even even worse if it's the third tournament you've attended with that approach.Last edited by MartyG; 13-12-2019, 13:47.
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Originally posted by charlesr View PostI have not fact checked this cos at work on my lunch, but read that:
Labour: 50K votes per seat
Conservatives: 38K votes per seat
And that Labour got way more votes than they did when they won outright in 2005.
Today's results, scroll down for full vote numbers.
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First past the post has had it's days, if you tally Labour, LD, SNP and Greens as the remain votes then it is also higher than the leave vote Tory and Exit party.
Not good signs, as it looks like the country is being dragged in a direction it doesn't want to go. The chance of Civil War 2 seems to be growing by the day.Last edited by S3M; 13-12-2019, 12:46.
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Originally posted by S3M View PostFirst past the post has had it's days, if you tally Labour, LD, SNP and Greens as the remain votes then it is also higher than the leave vote Tory and Exit party.
Without LibDems, the most seats under PR that Labour would have been able to coalition together is 267 compared to 305 for the Tories.Last edited by MartyG; 13-12-2019, 13:01.
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