Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[technolog]

The irony of course is that a "hung parliament" is currently priced by bookies as an odds-on favourite for May 6th. Not seen since the first election of 1974 when Heath tried to govern as a minoirty, which led to a second election later that year.

I thought Harold Wilson's Labour Party won the largest number of seats in February and formed a minority government with the aid of the Liberals. This broke down and they called another election in October in which they managed to secure a small majority. Off to Wikipedia.

[TightEnd]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html

Great pictures

[Woodsey]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html

Great pictures

I've been to that 1st waterfall

[Karabiner]

My vote is worth 0.084, hardly worth turning up !

[Woodsey]

My vote is worth 0.084, hardly worth turning up !

Same here, massive majority labour seat, not going to bother voting.

[AndrewT]

The last electoral boundary changes were about 6 years ago and made it more difficult than it was before for the Tories to secure and overall majority because to do so they need to be (without double checking) 9-10% in the clear on percentage of the vote to overcome the issues above

I seem to remember, but am a bit reluctant to make a political point because I am not sure of my ground on this, that the current government pushed through the last changes with opposition at time from the other parties (they need a vote in Parliament to go through)

There are actually new boundary changes coming in for this election which means that if everyone voted the same way as in 2005, the Tories would gain 10 seats from Labour.

[roscopiko]

Can anyone beat 0.013?

[AndrewT]

Can anyone beat 0.013?

Do you live in North Korea?

[Jon MW]

Can anyone beat 0.013?

In Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill, one person does not really have one vote, they have the equivalent of 0.004 votes.

Like I've suggested their system is deeply flawed, but I couldn't help myself but try and find the lowest one.

[kinboshi]

Can anyone beat 0.013?

In Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill, one person does not really have one vote, they have the equivalent of 0.004 votes.

Like I've suggested their system is deeply flawed, but I couldn't help myself but try and find the lowest one.

Could be worse.  Could be a woman living in Iran.

[RED-DOG]

Aht on t' bike today, saw this sign in a very quiet village.

Click to see full-size image.

[Woodsey]

Took this pic at a temple in Thailand the other week, hope nobody was planning on taking any loose women in there

Click to see full-size image.

[RED-DOG]

I love reading about people's lives. biographies, epitaphs etc.

I found this little site that tells you how life turned out for some of the people we're familiar with from film and TV. I find some of the stories fascinating.

http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/daily-fix/where-are-they-now

[Laxie]

Oh man...there goes my Thursday.  Cheers!

[david3103]

Red
You were discussing voting and proportional representation earlier in the week and I thought you'd be interested in a point made by Richard Herring the comedian in his show Hitler Moustache (an attempt to reclaim the toothbrush moustache for comedy).

You probably know that the BNP now has two MEPs, elected and sent to the European Parliament to represent this country as a result of last year's Euro Elections. The effect of this is wider than to have two BNP MEPs on the EUro Gravy Train, it also gave them the power to seek a wider recognition such as appearances on Question Time.

But did you know that if only 5,000 more people had voted and cast their votes for anyone other than the BNP that wouldn't have happened.
Just 5,000 more in an election in which aroound 30,000,000 chose not to vote.

I, for one, feel guilty that I was one of the 30,000,000