The UK general election 2010 results are in. Below is a table of results for all political parties that gained at least one parliamentary constituency. What a complete surprise that the Liberal Democrat rise in the polls did not equate even to a significant increase in the share of the popular vote and actually resulted […]
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Surely this is a golden opportunity for all the parties to work together for the common interest of the country. Each party does have something to offer that can be of benefit. For the first time in the history of politics, prove to the people of this country that working together can work for Britain’s future and survival.
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There are 649 seats in the houde of commons. The speaker is neutral and doesn’t vote and 5 Sinn Fein MP’s don’t take their seats.That leaves 343 that can vote in a partisan way. The target would, therefore, seem to be 322 not 323.
Labour and Liberals together have 315 (7 short) but the Nationalist Parties have 9 votes between them and both seem anxious to vote with Labour against the Tory programme.
Added to this the 3 SDLP MP’s usually take the Labour whip and given that the Greens and the Alliance Party in Northern Ireland are also left-leaning parties, a progressive coalition would not be too uncomfortable.
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I forgot about the speaker not voting, good point.
David
As someone who has favoured 1st past the post for all my life I have to say that the recent elected dictators (both Tory and Labour) would be better controlled under PR. Under a strict PR based on percentage of vote the LibDems would have had 159 seats, instead they have 57, this does not seem right to me. If the politicians have to compromise we should have less extreme government and less likelihood of involvement in what I view as illegal wars. My only fear is that the Brussels bureaucrats would gain even more power from a rudderless UK and that we could end up with a leaderless ship. BUT after the disaster of the last 13 years I find it hard to think of anything worse.
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Can you tell me what would have happened in a moment of crisis such as the economic world collapsing one year ago when all the parties would have to discuss and agree on best step to take? I did not particularly agree with Labour actions, but I know that a decisive decision was better than weeks or months of discussions whilst the economy would have collapsed even more that what we have seen. All the weakest countries in the world work with proportional system: let’s use common sense … a very British element. We could re-arrange the constituencies to be fairer, but I support a system where power is given to one winning party. Furthermore I want an MP that is answerable to my constituency … not my vote to go just to the general pot!
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i think the conservatives won the election as they have the larger % of the vote so it would be wrong for labour to stay in power (i voted labour so i am not bias when i say this), although i dont want to see a conservative govenment they should be in as thats how people have voted.
here is an idea for a proportional representation system:
1) there are 500 seats in parliment
2) 1% of the vote gets 5 seats in parliment
3) the party with the largest % of the vote is the one who gets the premiership.
this system may well give undesirable parties (such as BNP) seats but this would be a fair system and if that is how people have voted then so be it.
ste.
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In your proportional representation system above which unfortunate 5 constituencies have a BNP MP despite not gaining most of the vote in that area?
Fortunately there are workable PR voting systems like the single transferable vote that won’t result in MPs with no real support in an area like your suggested system would have.
BTW your idea wouldn’t work with independents or parties that don’t field 500 candidates either.
David
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Well said … whatever system we use must give a final winner … one only … I totally agree.
Regardless of who our next Prime Minister is, Thursday’s election will mark the moment when leadership of the country passed from the Baby Boom Generation to Generation Jones. GenJones, which is the heretofore “lost” generation between the Boomers and Xers, will constitute the largest generational segment in the new Parliament, as many Boomer MPs are replaced by Jonesers. It looks like significant media attention has accompanied this generational transition in numerous countries. If GenJoneser Cameron becomes PM, I wonder if we will see the kind of GenJones media buzz that happened when GenJonesers Obama, Sarkozy, and Merkel took over power from their Boomer predecessors.
I quite enjoyed this piece about GenJones in the Indy last week which discusses Cameron and Clegg’s identities as GenJonesers:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/jonathan-pontell-cleggs-rise-is-the-sound-of-generation-jones-clearing-its-throat-1961191.html
And I thought there was a pretty decent overview about GenJones in the UK here:
And I laughed clip by Jonathan Ross about Generation Jones:
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In all of the comments one thing not mentioned..In any area where an MP is elected it leaves usually more people left without an MP to whom they can go to in order to help them or complain etc..I cannot imagine anyone going to the elected MP in their area whose views are strongly different to their own.Question Is it fair to leave so many voters disenfranchised in this way ?
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One point I didnt mention …When all the investigations into electoral fraud have been done going by the scale of it all, the possibles re coalitions etc could be dramatically changed…how then would the outcome of all the talks going on be affected..ie if it showed one clear winner will all agreements be nullified?
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We need a very strong Government in UK that would address the issues of African human and capital flight, foreign loans diverted into personal pockets, violation of human rights, lack of proper compensation by oil companies, unemployment, lack of news freedom breeding social incoherence ultimately affects the climate and the struggle for world peace. That is why we are calling on the Liberal Democrats and Labour Party to reject any overtures from the Conservative to form a coalition Government. The Conservatives should be left to form the new Government since they do not control enough majority to ensure that the new Government is regularly checkmated and any excesses curbed to ensure probity, accountability and a strong economic and financial interplay that would make everybody proud that UK is awake to shoulder greater responsibilities towards its people and foreign countries like Africa. This suggestion should be seen as such without prejudice to any person or group of persons but as a contribution towards global peace.
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