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So one good outcome is that unlike the USA, you may get a government that will take a middle of the road direction. It seems that with just two parties, we are having to choose to either fall flat on or face or lean too far over backwards.

"Bunch of impressionable ditherers.. It's the people with the shallowest convictions ..." Or people with strong convictions that just don't fit the mould of a left/right party system and have to make the choice of the least worst candidate?

Yes, but, if Cameron doesn't win an outright majority on Thursday, even if he wins most seats, then Goldfish Brown stays as Prime Minister. Not much media attention has been focused on *that* I think. I wonder why?

Next week is, potentially, uncharted (and uncomfortable) constitutional territory, whichever way the election 'nearly goes'.

Tactical voting is a waste of time. No-one can second guess other people's attempts at second guessing.


The straight choice is, do you want another 5 years of Goldfish Brown mismanaging the country (which already has the equivalent of £65,0000 of debt per household as a result of current Labout policies interacting badly with the global economic situation), or not?


If not, then don't vote for anyone other than the only Party who could win outright.

Hmmmm. Wonder why they call you Blue Witch... ;-)

I'd jsut like to stress that I am *not* a natural Tory voter.


But, I don't believe in the protest spoiling ballot papers in a "None of the Above" way, and sometimes one has to pick the less bad option.

Surely both ends are a shade of purple now? The clear cut difference doesn't really exist except in the media. Unless, that is, you happen to be a fox. And BW: "Tactical voting is a waste of time" agreed "...don't vote for anyone other than the only Party who could win outright" erm - isn't that tactical voting?


BW, it's those kind of scare-mongering tactics that ensure I won't vote blue. (ignoring the fact that it's an ignorant and untrue assumption) And I *have* voted that way before. I swear I'm going to punch the next person who has the audacity to tell me how to exercise my democratic right. I had a local candidate come by the door last week (who I'd already voted for - yay postal voting) and gave him hell for asking me how I would vote in the election.

Blue witch - i'm not sure what's quite so controversial about Gordon Brown temporarily remaining prime minister - the country still needs governing while the parties decide between them who needs to be prime minister for the next few years, and there are strict rules stopping him from doing much during this period. He would then get a chance to form a coalition with a clear majority, if that fails he'll tender his resignation and then David Cameron gets a go at forming a government. The system is designed to try and provide stability in a case like this, which is entirely a good thing.

i'm happy to say i'm not red not blue.


there's an election on?

Goldfish Brown! LOL! LOL! LOL!

Pathetic.

It *isn't* scaremongering Chz. It's the truth.

A truth that I felt was not receiving enough publicity. See the BBC link of explanation. As ever, I'm just happy to have raised the issue...

But the whole point is that it's not completely uncharted territory, this happened in Feb 74 and the current guidelines were drawn up to allow for a stable transition (as much as possible) and not chaos. Not that the press are likely to allow that to happen, mind.

Your diagram is somewhat lacking in green.

Does the model lead to a 'Not Government'?

I still say I would vote for abolishing democracy and going back to absolute monarchy.

The local Labour council list for Tower Hamlets seemed to consist at least 50% of the extended Uddin family - is this representative of the 68% of residents who do not belong to this group?And don't start me on vote-rigging...

I think Ham put it quite right - the colours are just that. But the politics are all blue really. The NHS and child benefits are the only bits of red policy left.

Seems to me the choices are no different to the operating systems on our computers. What do you want? Windows ME = Labour, Windows Vista = Tory, Mac OS = LibDem, some independents = Linux. They're all rubbish to some extent but we have to choose one just to function. Shame they're all so out of date with reality.

Gets home.

Reads comments.

Attempts to tidy them up.

May have overdone it.

But that's better.


I do worry about why you frequently find it necessary to edit the opinions/thoughts of others?

And I say that as one who only got a duplicate comment and a part of a comment that referred to a toally deleted comment removed.

No-one was being abusive or blatantly disresepctful to anyone else, as far as I could see (as is so often found when one raises the subject of politics). So, why?

I suspect this will disappear too...

My comment didn't even make it the first time.

dg writes: Sorry, Tridentscan marked it as spam. I've now unmarked it.

Accusations of ballot box rigging.

You're forgetting the people who don't turn out to vote at all. I managed to get some percentages for every election since universal suffrage, and it shows an alarming increase in the "couldn't be bothered" segment, over the last few decades. That might change this time, of course.











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