I’m lifting weights in the gym right now. Will be voting in about an hour and home in time for exit poll and start of an evening of fun in front of telly (probably C4).
The ink in cheap pens would dry out over the day and you'd end up having hundreds of votes where the cross is barely visible creating a nightmare at close counts where parties are arguing over their validity - think US election in 2000.
Horsham is predicted by all pollsters to go Lib Dem. Bookies have them odds on to win as well.
Whatever happens it'll be close - don't forget your ID!!!!
No you wouldn't; you just put your preferences in the box. You basically need to be able to count. We've voted this way in previous mayoral elections until the tories attempted to gerrymander the process by reverting to FPTP in a failed attempt to get Sadiq Khan out of office.
Here's a sobering thought: If France had a similar FPTP system to us, then Le Pen's party would have a 15 seat majority in the French parliament (with only 34% of the popular vote). As it is, the centrist and left-of-centre parties should be able to form an alliance to prevent this happening in...
Would you be so happy in a subsequent GE if Farage became a little bit more popular and got 35% of the popular vote and that was enough for a MAJORITY of MPs giving him 5 years of hard-right rule, despite 65% of the electorate voting for moderate parties?
I know very little about him, so just had a look on WACCOE to get the general mood. Have to say that there doesn't seem to be nearly enough angst about the potential for losing him to us to make me think that he's anything special.
Although I suppose we ought to trust the Star Lizard data...
That is quite an amusing irony. Although it falls down a bit on the fact that the referendum was specifically relating to an AV system to elect MPs and not PR.
Sounds like a fair representation, no? Just because we don’t like a particular party - and believe you me that I hate Farage and think all Reform voters are bunglecunts - it doesn’t mean that a system that gives them fair representation is wrong. Who are we to individually decide that certain...
So you’re happy with the current parliament having had a party with a large majority with only 44% of the vote, and the next governing party having a huge majority with low 40s? That’s shit democracy.
Chatting politics earlier today and potential for PR to replace FPTP. What was an interesting argument was that Refrom having 15% of MPs would have less of an influence on UK policy than they currently do with zero MPs. Reason being that the Tory party have continually shifted to the right to...
Fair play my arse. They closed it by offering wages that’ll add further to their 100m a year losses that are being offset by selling stuff to themselves.
I don’t know, but Textor has been funding about 150m worth of losses at Palace for the last 4 yeas on top of that. I don’t know if he’s a bottomless pit of cash like Boehly, but he’d need to be for that to be sustainable.