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Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by sb_73, Feb 11, 2015.

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Who will you vote for in the May 2015 UK General Election?

Poll closed May 5, 2015.
  1. Conservative

    36 vote(s)
    32.4%
  2. Green

    6 vote(s)
    5.4%
  3. Labour

    17 vote(s)
    15.3%
  4. Liberal Democrat

    4 vote(s)
    3.6%
  5. SNP

    1 vote(s)
    0.9%
  6. UKIP

    18 vote(s)
    16.2%
  7. Other

    4 vote(s)
    3.6%
  8. I will not vote

    11 vote(s)
    9.9%
  9. I cannot vote - too young/in prison/in House of Lords/mad

    1 vote(s)
    0.9%
  10. I am not a citizen of the UK

    13 vote(s)
    11.7%
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  1. Chaz

    Chaz Well-Known Member

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    If a joke needs explaining, it stops being funny...
     
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  2. Swords Hoopster.

    Swords Hoopster. Well-Known Member

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    Was it ever funny in the first place!

    Voting Labour speaks volumes about someone? I'd like to know what it speaks!
     
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  3. Chaz

    Chaz Well-Known Member

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    No you don't - you want to provoke yet another fight.
     
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  4. Pils-the-hoop

    Pils-the-hoop Active Member

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    Not much point in voting when you consider the current system potentially ensures a party with approx 4% of the vote could end up with 50 odd seats(SNP), a party with approx 15% of the votes could end up with 2 seats (UKIP) and a party with approx 8% of the vote potentially being in power (LibDems) !!

    Crazy situation and a complete waste of everyones time ( if no majority all bets are off and maifestos count for jack anyway).

    As Mark Twain ( I think) once said ..............if voting actually made a difference it would be illegal.
     
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  5. QPR999

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    That's a great way of putting it and probably why I've sat on my arse and not bothered to haul it down the polling station. I really can't stomach giving my vote to any of these self serving pigs, but as you said, it doesn't matter if you do or don't. Milliband or Cameron ffs! They should both be carted off and shot, let alone given the chance to run a nation.
     
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  6. Chaz

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    There was an attempt to resolve at least some of this issue in the last parliament, by updating the boundaries so that each constituency had roughly the same number of voters. This was vetoed by the Lib Dems out of spite, because they didn't get their way on something else.

    So we still have the situation where (to show the extremes):
    We also have the situation where a constituency only has around 22,000 voters (Na h-Eileanan an Iar in the Western Isles) so at 65% turn out, a candidate only needs around 8,000 votes to be guaranteed victory, and at the same time another constituency (Isle Of Wight) having over 110,000 voters, and the same turnout percentage would need them to win somewhere around 35,000 votes to guarantee victory. Even as we are, the imbalance in the electoral boundaries mean that many of us have a vote that counts far less than others - whatever the political make up of the local area.

    Of course, this was on the agenda a few years back, but the Lib Dems voted against it out of spite because they couldn't get their way over something else...
     
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  7. Swords Hoopster.

    Swords Hoopster. Well-Known Member

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    Don't tell me you've gone out & voted Tory, Chazza. You've cancelled out my vote! <doh>
     
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  8. Shawswood

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    Wasn't one of the main arguments against the introduction of PR - which would give parties a truer number of seats in proportion to their share of votes cast - that it wouldn't give a decisive result and would lead to parties having to cobble together some sort of unstable arrangement like a lot of those foreign countries have to settle for.
     
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  9. Chaz

    Chaz Well-Known Member

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    If only cancelling you out was always so easy... :)
     
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  10. 4StringR

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    I on the other hand in Uxbridge and Sth Ruislip have been inundated with literature because we have 13 candidates as they all want to be seen on the same voting slip as Boris.
    My favourite candidate thus far and one I think could cause an upset to Boris, if only due to the quality of her personal write up is Sabrina.......
    http://www.communitiesunitedparty.com/index.php/our-candidates/item/87-sabrina-moosun
     
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  11. Pils-the-hoop

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    Isn't that how Parliament should work though Grinning?

    You know, an assembled group of members of all parties, chosen by us ( the people), working together in the best interests of us (the people) based upon a reflection of the number of votes each one of them received?

    rather than a group of members representing, in the following order:

    1) the establishment
    2) the banks
    3) corporations
    4) their financial backers
    5) their party
    6) themselves
    7) us ( the mug punters)

    We are seriously way down the pecking order under the current status quo my friend!
     
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  12. sb_73

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    Are you including Trades Unions and the public sector in 'the establishment'? Just for balance, I'm voting Labour, apparently.
     
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  13. Swords Hoopster.

    Swords Hoopster. Well-Known Member

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    What do you mean apparently? Haven't I cast my ballot yet???
     
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  14. Chaz

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    Or, in a red and tartan world:

    1) the Scots
    2) the Unions
    3) themselves
    4) their party
    5) the Scots (again)
    6) themselves (again)
    7) us ( the mug punters)
     
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  15. sb_73

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    After dinner and wine I suspect, a stroll with my wife to the polling station, our votes neatly cancelling each other out (whatever happened to the primacy of the patriarch?). She's another ex Labourite that Blair tore from the party, and she won't be returning as long as Ed Balls is around, judging from the comments made whenever he appears on TV.
     
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    Get used to it Chaz, unless you are emigrating with Col.
     
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  17. Chaz

    Chaz Well-Known Member

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    Sadly, it may need to be an option.....

    Let's hope not, eh? :emoticon-0169-dance<ale>:emoticon-0178-rock:
     
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  18. sb_73

    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    I'm wondering how long I will last through the results programmes tonight. The only thing that will make it interesting is the polls being wrong, which they could well be given 30-40% undecided (if they bother to vote).
     
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  19. Swords Hoopster.

    Swords Hoopster. Well-Known Member

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    Take it easy on that Vino, Stan. I don't want my vote spoiled through drunkenness. Leave that for the Irish elections.

    RMS Lusitania went down 100 years ago today. Is that an omen? Will the Tories sink into a watery grave today too???
     
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  20. Chaz

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    Most of the passengers on the Lusitania were working class plebs.... so it's more likely we'll see the demise of the other side...

    ...if it's an omen of anything, that is...
     
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