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The UK Election!!!!

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05-23-2014 4:58 PM 		Reply to: Message 402 by Larni
05-23-2014 4:51 AM

Re: Coalition Conundrum
The Tories are a bit buggered I 'reckon'. They have to throw the libs some bones but they also don't want the more right wing voters turning their coats to UKIP (boo hiss).
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Personally I hate the libs because they took the Tory shilling, the Tories because they are a bunch of Toffs and UKIP because a nice coat of paint on a racist still leaves you with a racist.
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The Lib Dems have consistently been campaigned for LGBT rights, with resistance from the Tories and Labour, since their founding. Among other reasons, I cannot hate them. I hate Labour because of their funding, and the Tories for obvious reasons. I still don't know why people voted UKIP into council seats. Local councils don't have influence on foreign affairs, European policy or immigration. So why?
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05-28-2014 9:06 PM 		Reply to: Message 411 by Straggler
05-28-2014 5:00 AM

Re: Coalition Conundrum
In terms of percentage of the vote - It's just possible. But due to the vagaries of the first past the post system that won't translate into actual Members of Parliament. The Lib Dems will still all but certainly be the third party in terms of number of MPs. Current projections suggest they will be down from the present 56 seats to 30 odd. Meanwhile UKIP will be doing well to get a seat or two.
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It's not about how many vote for them across the country so much as how disparate or concentrated the vote is in each individual seat.
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Ironically, if the Lib Dems had succeeded in their plans for a voting system reform...
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