Erection 2015

[zeppelin101]

If you look at the 'popular vote' figures it's kinda close.

However if you look at the same figures for the 2005 general election it's ****ing Razor thin.
Yet 2005 was a 'Glorious Labour Victory' so you won't ever hear a Labour fanboi mention 2005's numbers when they are busy moaning about the 2015 election.

The reality is that the vote share across the country doesn't matter while we are using FPTP voting though. As expected, the Tories played the game well and won out. As did the SNP.

[R3K1355]

The reality is that the vote share across the country doesn't matter while we are using FPTP voting though. As expected, the Tories played the game well and won out. As did the SNP.

Yep and when you look at voter share across the country you kinda realise we do need the FPTP system, otherwise we would probably never have a majority government.

Italy have just had to change their voting system as they had decades of coalitions and they were ineffective over there.
(Although I think our last one was pretty good really)

[sideways14a]

Fed up of hearing this shite.

Lets be straight
Last year the SNP lost the referendum, it wasnt by 3 or 4 votes either and if you count the whole voting population then they had even less of a share.
Fast forward to the elections
Labour lost by a fair chunk to the tories, if you try and be clever and add up all the parties who didnt vote for the tories then your being a twat because democracy doesnt work like that.

Fed up of reading shit from losers who aint happy with either of the above - mainly on FB but its prevalent elsewhere.
Get the **** over it.

[sparkyhx]

Fed up of hearing this shite.


Labour lost by a fair chunk to the tories, if you try and be clever and add up all the parties who didnt vote for the tories then your being a twat because democracy doesnt work like that.Get the **** over it.

Other foot, Pot kettle black,

and democracy DOES work like that, just not in this country. If you had a vote at work they wouldn't artificially split the employees into groups sex, age hair colour and then see which was the outcome, instead you have a straight majority vote. FPTP is archaic anachronistic and possibly the worst example of 'democracy'. It needs changing even if that means less outright majorities and more coalitions.

I'll say one thing for the lib dems at least they stopped many of the tory dogma based excesses that we are now seeing being resurrected.

[Jonny Wilkinson]

Winston S. Churchill — 'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.'

[Asht_200]

Is this still going?

To Labour voters - your party lost - The End

[def]

Is this still going?

To Labour voters - your party lost - The End

Actual lol alert!

Same with the Scottish vote. Sister inlaw is still bleating on about how the next one will happen soon and how evil the English are.....You moved to England.......from Scotland.....

[Asht_200]

Sorry but "spend every penny we don't have" is utterly meaningless phrase that has no basis in economics.

Let me see? The letter written by the Labour Chief Sec to the Treasury that said "Sorry there is no money left"....

Maybe Labour didn't case the economic crash... but they sure as hell didn't leave the country in the best finanical state to deal with it....

They started running a structural deficit long before the crash when the country already had a load of debts to pay off...We actually had a surplus before Brown stated spending...... and "spending money we don't have" is generally called borrowing to fund the gap. Didn't economics tell you that? Obviously not