[setanta]

Jesus, it's all over the place. No ballot papers and running over 10 mins beyond the end of voting?!! Mental.

[Shasown]

Constituency averaghes 74,000 voters, though obviously people move into and out of areas etc.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by setanta

Will the BNP win a seat?

Yeah I think they will however if its a hung parliament and there is a lab/lib pact then clegg wants PR as the first priority, in which case if they reallocate seats according to this election(they shouldnt really but you never know) then BNP will have a handful of seats as will UKIP.

[Spike]

This election is chaos.

[setanta]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Yeah I think they will however if its a hung parliament and there is a lab/lib pact then clegg wants PR as the first priority, in which case if they reallocate seats according to this election(they shouldnt really but you never know) then BNP will have a handful of seats as will UKIP.

Pretend I'm a moron for a moment and tell me what PR means. lol.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Spike

This election is chaos.

They always are until about 1 am, then you start to see lots of declarations.

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Spike

This election is chaos.

Bit of an exaggeration

It's just a lot of idiots thinking they can leave it to the last minute when there's been a 15 hour window of opportunity to vote.

[Alec]

Lib Dem's for me. The tories will make life hell for the working class people while people like Simon Cowell will get an easy life in terms of tax.

Id rather Labour get back in the the tories.

[setanta]

Lib Dems haven't had a good night. Even I can see that. Who knows though - they might do well in the south.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by setanta

Pretend I'm a moron for a moment and tell me what PR means. lol.

There are different ways to implement it but say the tories polled 30% of all votes, then they would have 30% of th seats. If 5% of the voters voted for the BNP it would get 5% of the seats.

If they do decide to restructure the voting system there are several ways to bring in PR. Some more fairer than others.

[Alec]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Bit of an exaggeration

It's just a lot of idiots thinking they can leave it to the last minute when there's been a 15 hour window of opportunity to vote.

Finally, sense has come through. I live next to my polling station, and i can say that in the last 10 minutes they was a flood of around 40 people wanting to vote. Why wait till last minuet the muppets!

[setanta]

Originally Posted by Shasown

There are different ways to implement it but say the tories polled 30% of all votes, then they would have 30% of th seats. If 5% of the voters voted for the BNP it would get 5% of the seats.

If they do decide to restructure the voting system there are several ways to bring in PR. Some more fairer than others.

F£ck, it means proportional representation right? God, I'm half asleep. Got ya. Yeah, you might have a few of them in the house!

[Shaun]

The thing with PR is wouldn't it completely alter the point of an MP - ie. remove the idea of a 'locality' and the sense of local campaigning? Or is it still split into areas, but larger than the current constituencies?

[setanta]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Bit of an exaggeration

It's just a lot of idiots thinking they can leave it to the last minute when there's been a 15 hour window of opportunity to vote.

Yeah, you're probably right for the majority of them, but apparently some of them weren't even logged into the system. Mental.

[setanta]

Heineken Lager?!

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Shaun

The thing with PR is wouldn't it completely alter the point of an MP - ie. remove the idea of a 'locality' and the sense of local campaigning? Or is it still split into areas, but larger than the current constituencies?

Depends on which method they implement if they do, open party lists- vote for a personality and party , closed party lists vote for a party only, single transferable vote.

and all sorts of wierd and wonder hybrids between majoritarian and PR style elections.

[Patrick]

lmfao at the fail on ITV.

The Camera man dropped his camera.

[setanta]

Oh, I think voting by constituency and population is so important.

[setanta]

Was that Joan Collins? I'd still ride her. But still, all the bigwigs loving the fact that they're in.

[Spike]

The BBC seems behind the ITV coverage which is strange.

[Beastie]

I still got channel 4 on. Doubt I will be staying up till god knows what time in the morning.

[Shaun]

According to Twitter the Torbay result isn't too far away.

[Shaun]

Waaaait a minute, what is that little dark green "1"? The Green Party is lighter than that...not BNP surely?

Though I think the DUP and Sinn Fein are shades of green too.

[Shaun]

Ah, Sinn Fein hold a seat.

[setanta]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Waaaait a minute, what is that little dark green "1"? The Green Party is lighter than that...not BNP surely?

Though I think the DUP and Sinn Fein are shades of green too.

Green is obviously the new colour for the shi$ they don't care about. Isn't there enough colours in the spectrum to jazz it up a little?