Current Affairs The General Election

[Billy Dean]

We need proportional representation , the system is a joke.

FPTP is the will of the people

 

[peteblue]

True

Just need all the old people to hurry up and die

but then the young will grow older and more sensible and vote Tory.....

 

[Lanolin]

It’s amazing how much of an echo chamber or bubble some people obviously live in. So many posts from people who just don’t seem to grasp that not everybody is passionate about politics or up on their current affairs. I spoke to a work colleague yesterday who openly admitted that she didn’t actually know who she’d voted for. She’d voted because her husband told her she should, she just stuck an x in the box and walked out. It’s far more common than some of you seem to realise.

 

[peteblue]

I am pleased to see the back of a whole host of MP’s, the arrogant and disloyal, those that believed they knew better than their voters....well enjoy your retirement from Politics and it’s comfy money....

 

[peteblue]

And then I put channel 4 on and see Soubry on some chat show.....ffs, can we not be rid of this woman.....

 

[Catfish Blues]

She’d voted because her husband told her she should, she just stuck an x in the box and walked out. It’s far more common than some of you seem to realise

So long as people like that end up voting randomly, it'll make no difference though.

Admittedly, if they all go for the first name on the ballot paper, then, assuming they're alphabetical, then there's something to be said for choosing candidates like Alan Aardvark.

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

We need proportional representation , the system is a joke.

100%. PR is much more democratic. Every vote counts even in constituencies where one candidate is a cert to top the poll.

How long is the UK going to continue with a situation where 100% of the people are governed by around 40% of those who voted ? Labour should have introduced it when they were in government because the tories never will.

 

[dholliday]

100%. PR is much more democratic. Every vote counts even in constituencies where one candidate is a cert to top the poll.

How long is the UK going to continue with a situation where 100% of the people are governed by around 40% of those who voted ? Labour should have introduced it when they were in government because the tories never will.

as has been said a few times, there was a democratic vote about whether FPTP should be kept or replaced. The people overwhelmingly voted to keep it.

 

[dannyboy]

It’s amazing how much of an echo chamber or bubble some people obviously live in. So many posts from people who just don’t seem to grasp that not everybody is passionate about politics or up on their current affairs. I spoke to a work colleague yesterday who openly admitted that she didn’t actually know who she’d voted for. She’d voted because her husband told her she should, she just stuck an x in the box and walked out. It’s far more common than some of you seem to realise.

More needs to be done to get people engaged for the sake of democracy. There was literally nothing to do with politics on the curriculum when I was at school. Hopefully it´s changed now but I really doubt it.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I am pleased to see the back of a whole host of MP’s, the arrogant and disloyal, those that believed they knew better than their voters....well enjoy your retirement from Politics and it’s comfy money....

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/the-2015-popularity-contest-aka-uk-general-election.70010/page-292#post-3411121

‘The idea of Boris in charge scares the crap out of me’

Care to tell us what mental gymnastics you’ve had to undergo in the last few years to change your mind about him. Reckon it’s just his stance on brexit tbh. You’ve compromised your morals

 

[Kirkles]

as has been said a few times, there was a democratic vote about whether FPTP should be kept or replaced. The people overwhelmingly voted to keep it.

8 years ago

 

[Billy Dean]

as has been said a few times, there was a democratic vote about whether FPTP should be kept or replaced. The people overwhelmingly voted to keep it.

It was driven by Nick Clegg who was deeply unpopular at the time. That had a big influence on the vote. I can't see that being put back to the people for a long time.

 

[peteblue]

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/the-2015-popularity-contest-aka-uk-general-election.70010/page-292#post-3411121

‘The idea of Boris in charge scares the crap out of me’

Care to tell us what mental gymnastics you’ve had to undergo in the last few years to change your mind about him. Reckon it’s just his stance on brexit tbh. You’ve compromised your morals

I think he’ll be a good PM, I think he will win over even more Labour supporters.....

 

[Brennan]

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/the-2015-popularity-contest-aka-uk-general-election.70010/page-292#post-3411121

‘The idea of Boris in charge scares the crap out of me’

Care to tell us what mental gymnastics you’ve had to undergo in the last few years to change your mind about him. Reckon it’s just his stance on brexit tbh. You’ve compromised your morals

Good vaulting there.

 

[Lanolin]

So long as people like that end up voting randomly, it'll make no difference though.

Admittedly, if they all go for the first name on the ballot paper, then, assuming they're alphabetical, then there's something to be said for choosing candidates like Alan Aardvark.

No I’m not saying it affects the result. I’m just commenting on all the people who are acting as if the average person on the street fact checks what they’ve read in the paper or knows the details of a party’s manifesto. They really don’t.