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MrsHobieJoe
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Apr 16, 2010 - 12:16pm |
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Inamorato wrote:This Anglophile Yank who watched excerpts from the debate and commentary on BBC America got:Green Party - 63% Liberal Democrats - 58% Labour Party - 52% British National Party - 42% Conservative Party - 39% UK Independence Party - 30% Interesting. What did you think of the debate?
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Inamorato
Location: Twin Cities Gender:
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Apr 16, 2010 - 7:29am |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:Any views on the debate last night? If you can't decide who to vote for try here. Warning- it is the Telegraph- I still got LibDem though. This Anglophile Yank who watched excerpts from the debate and commentary on BBC America got: Green Party - 63% Liberal Democrats - 58% Labour Party - 52% British National Party - 42% Conservative Party - 39% UK Independence Party - 30%
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geordiezimmerman
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MrsHobieJoe
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Apr 16, 2010 - 5:17am |
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geordiezimmerman wrote:Nick Clegg was way ahead of anyone else. That's who I'm voting for, there is a massive facebook campaign for them at the moment (the rage against the machine lot) and they could gain a bit more momentum on top of last night's tv debate too. All poles show him winning that debate. I just don't want the conservatives to win, they're as bad as UKIP or The BNP as far as i'm concerned. I will never trust a conservative MP, never! You and I are the same age I think and I would find it very difficult to vote Tory too based on my experiences in the eighties. Here is my result (I did the tiebreaker at the end too and I excluded UKIP and the BNP from my voting options - because- NO WAY): Party- Liberal Democrats:
- 63%
- Green Party:
- 53%
- Labour Party:
- 52%
- Conservative Party:
- 51%
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geordiezimmerman
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Apr 16, 2010 - 4:48am |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:Any views on the debate last night? If you can't decide who to vote for try here. Warning- it is the Telegraph- I still got LibDem though. Nick Clegg was way ahead of anyone else. That's who I'm voting for, there is a massive facebook campaign for them at the moment (the rage against the machine lot) and they could gain a bit more momentum on top of last night's tv debate too. All poles show him winning that debate. I just don't want the conservatives to win, they're as bad as UKIP or The BNP as far as i'm concerned. I will never trust a conservative MP, never!
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fidget
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Apr 16, 2010 - 3:44am |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:Any views on the debate last night? If you can't decide who to vote for try here. Warning- it is the Telegraph- I still got LibDem though. Nick Clegg nailed it for me
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MrsHobieJoe
Location: somewhere in Europe Gender:
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Apr 16, 2010 - 2:47am |
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Any views on the debate last night? If you can't decide who to vote for try here. Warning- it is the Telegraph- I still got LibDem though. EDIT- on the issues that are important to you bit it isn't clear on my computer but there is a line on the bottom right of that section- clicking on it moves you onto the next section.
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MrsHobieJoe
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Apr 14, 2010 - 6:00am |
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The Tories still can't quite seem to nail it. There are two polls today (Times and Independent) showing them on 36%. Here is a predictor to play with the various outcomes. I still can't quite see a hung parliament happening - I'd guess a small Conservative majority however because of the current electoral map the Tories need to get a slighter bigger percentage to win an outright majority. Hopefully there'll be some boundary changes soon as I very much dislike the system intrinsically favouring one party or the other.
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MrsHobieJoe
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Jan 20, 2010 - 1:13pm |
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So I was listening to the key interview on the Today programme this morning and there was a Tory talking about not disadvantaging marriage in the tax system. I had a flashback to "family values" and wondered when the first Conservative MP having an affair would be revealed.
For any Americans reading "Family Values" was a campaign for the ?2002 election when John Major was PM. Inevitably there were plenty of revelations of naughty goings on by Tory MPs and ministers and a few years later it was revealed that John Major himself had been having an affair with a well known MP- Edwina Currie. The conservatives often go down this campaign route and seem to forget that it leads to disaster!
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dionysius
Location: The People's Republic of Austin Gender:
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Jan 4, 2010 - 6:19pm |
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OCDHG wrote:I want to start a thread called British Elementary Particles 2010 —- what I read this as 3 times. Darn dyslexia! What happens, see, when a Laboron encounters its antiparticle, the Torion, is that they annihilate each other, leaving only the massless and chargeless Libdemion, the gauge boson carrying the Futile force all over the universe. Or the parts of the universe north of the Channel.
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DownHomeGirl
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Jan 4, 2010 - 6:14pm |
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I want to start a thread called British Elementary Particles 2010 —- what I read this as 3 times. Darn dyslexia!
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Welly
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Jan 4, 2010 - 6:09pm |
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Sadfish wrote:There is little difference to the parties here now, that all merged around the time "New Labour" came to power.
However, i'm not aligned to any particular party, but god help us is the Tories get in.
I'm gonna guess that people may well take it pretty close, but Labour will win again, more due to the fact the other parties are pretty faceless and few people know what they represent anymore.
Indeed. I remember Mrs Thatcher just a tad too clearly
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dionysius
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Jan 4, 2010 - 6:06pm |
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Go Lib Dems!
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sirdroseph
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Jan 4, 2010 - 2:54pm |
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Queen Elizabeth is sexy!
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Sadfish
Location: Lancashire, England. Gender:
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Jan 4, 2010 - 2:42pm |
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jadewahoo wrote:Is this when they elect the next King, too?
The bone of contention in the UK is not the Royal Family or the Government but our house of "Lords" the sham that it is.
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Sadfish
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Jan 4, 2010 - 2:39pm |
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There is little difference to the parties here now, that all merged around the time "New Labour" came to power.
However, i'm not aligned to any particular party, but god help us is the Tories get in.
I'm gonna guess that people may well take it pretty close, but Labour will win again, more due to the fact the other parties are pretty faceless and few people know what they represent anymore.
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NoEnzLefttoSplit
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Jan 4, 2010 - 1:28pm |
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Riveting stuff!
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jadewahoo
Location: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Gender:
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Jan 4, 2010 - 1:19pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:
Don't get me started on my republican ideals- the thing is I don't want a president either. Our figurehead of state only system makes for a pretty simple government.
I was only kidding!
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MrsHobieJoe
Location: somewhere in Europe Gender:
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Jan 4, 2010 - 1:16pm |
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jadewahoo wrote: Is this when they elect the next King, too?
Don't get me started on my republican ideals- the thing is I don't want a president either. Our figurehead of state only system makes for a pretty simple government.
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jadewahoo
Location: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Gender:
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Jan 4, 2010 - 1:14pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:It's our turn for an election this year and I'm already pretty tired of it. The main campaigning started this week although when parliament is dissolved about 6 weeks before the election it will really get going. Most likely election date is May 6th. That will be 5 years since the last election which is the longest time one of our parliaments can run.
Currently the score is: Labour 356 Conservative 198 Liberal Democrat 62 Others 30 Total 646 seats in the House of Commons
Everyone gets re-elected with traditionally the leader of the party with the biggest majority becoming prime minister. It is possible but unusual to have a hung parliament in which case there's a bun fight for the support of the lib-dems. Both the two big parties are currently being nice to the lib dems but it is most likely that the Tories (Conservatives) will win this one. They do have a large labour majority to overturn however.
Here's one place you can keep up should you be interested (they swing left ie Labour).
One interesting point is that with the recent expenses scandal a much larger number of seats than normal will change hands this year with a lot of the old guard being swept out. Is this when they elect the next King, too?
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