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Poll: Who do you think you'll be voting for?
This poll is closed.
Conservative
3.33%
1 3.33%
Labour
20.00%
6 20.00%
Liberal Democrat
13.33%
4 13.33%
Green
13.33%
4 13.33%
UKIP
6.67%
2 6.67%
Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP)
3.33%
1 3.33%
Plaid Cymru (Welsh Nationalists)
0%
0 0%
Other
0%
0 0%
Still undecided
3.33%
1 3.33%
Not Voting
6.67%
2 6.67%
Not a UK Voter
30.00%
9 30.00%
Total 30 vote(s) 100%
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2015 UK General Election
RE: 2015 UK General Election
(May 8, 2015 at 7:52 am)Iroscato Wrote: It's about damn time we modernised our system of governance.

I'd scrap Party politics completely, replacing it with a system that allows you to vote for individuals to hold specific roles. Instead of Lords, I would have Experts who's job it would be to work out what the 'best' policies are for a given subject. Instead of Commons, I would have Organisers who's job it would be to put those policies in to practice.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
@Tiberius: Wow, that's scary. I should read the Grauniad more often.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
(May 8, 2015 at 9:27 am)Tiberius Wrote:
(May 8, 2015 at 9:16 am)StuW Wrote: The monarchy have no powers of governance, the modern constitutional monarchy is a source of governance in tradition only and not in actual actual powers.

If only that were actually true:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/1...veto-bills

I wasn't aware of this, thanks for the information.

I still think the Monarchy is a good thing for this country and identify as a royalist so I think my position is pretty obvious.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
(May 8, 2015 at 9:39 am)StuW Wrote:
(May 8, 2015 at 9:27 am)Tiberius Wrote: If only that were actually true:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/1...veto-bills

I wasn't aware of this, thanks for the information.

I still think the Monarchy is a good thing for this country and identify as a royalist so I think my position is pretty obvious.

I can respect that, and agree to disagree. I just think we have too many holdovers from the 17th century. The old cliche of 'in this day and age' come to mind. But cliches are sometimes cliches for a good reason.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
I'm not really a Royalist, but not that bothered, though that grauniad article does concern me.

In other news, Russell Brand has performed a political style U-turn on supporting Ed Miliband. I hope the irony isn't lost on him.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
Still, the best moment of the election was the ousting of this tiresome, loathsome little man:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-32638176

Ran a dreadful campaign against the Labour winner Naseem Shah, accusing her of all sorts of things, and is now under investigation for breaking election law.
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
Galloway at his finest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LAQ3UHeoA0
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RE: 2015 UK General Election
Indeed, at least this strange turd of a man is out. My dad likes him, for reasons I'm not entirely clear on and I suspect he isn't either. Mutual hatred of Blair probably has something to do with it.

Addendum: breakdown of the popular vote for the election. This shit is why we NEED proportional representation, because as we see, Cameron secured a touch over 1/3 of the vote, yet will now command just over half the power in parliament. 2/3 of the electorate did not vote for him, and Labour recieved about 6% less than the Conservatives.
This is not how a multi-party election is supposed to be calculated. This is fucking unfair.

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RE: 2015 UK General Election
People prayed for this dammit! This is what god wants after all. Despite everything that's happened, I do feel sorry for Nigel Farage. I think he would have have been a hark working MP. Now South Thanet has a nondescript Conservative as their MP.

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RE: 2015 UK General Election
(May 8, 2015 at 3:51 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: People prayed for this dammit! This is what god wants after all. Despite everything that's happened, I do feel sorry for Nigel Farage. I think he would have have been a hark working MP. Now South Thanet has a nondescript Conservative as their MP.

They didn't pray for it. They voted for it.

It wasn't too long ago that people were voting on whether or not to change the first past the post system. 

People voted to keep it the same.

I know people are moaning how it's unfair now, and I'm another who thinks it is. But people only have themselves to blame really. 
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