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[nineveh_uk]

Well at least if everything is going to go to shit, I have a weekend with my family to commiserate in. But this is clearly going to take all night and I have to go to work tomorrow, so I'm off to bed. I was going to do a little rant, but I don't think I can be bothered to put it together (and I still need to pack). Let's see how things stand in the morning.

Comments

[sir_guinglain]

It will be an unpredictable parliament but a sign of a divided country and governments which have set out to divide for their own ends.

[nineveh_uk]

Truer words were never spoken.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

It has gone to shit. I think there will be a lot of drinking this weekend.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

The bright side is that Lab gained both Cambridge and Norwich South, so both my parents are back in Labour hands.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

That is a good bright side. My seat has seen a massive Lib Dem to Tory swing (Labour gone up by 2%). Looks like the Lib Dems have discovered that actually they are quite comfortable being Conservatives.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I think that I might be drinking on the plane tonight. It's not like it could make me feel worse when I wake up tomorrow. Fuck the Lib Dems - they sold out (among so many things) on PR, and as a result we have a parliament that iss massively unrepresentative of the vote. And fuck Cameron, and the media moguls who bought him the election, and a goodly proportion of the population of this country.

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I can't disagree with your plans - or your masterly analysis.

[snorkackcatcher]

I would like to second that.

[(Anonymous)]

Wouldn't PR have resulted in substantial UKIP seats. I understand people are upset, but UKIP as well would have surely been an awful result.
Lizzzar

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly it would, although I believe many PR systems do have a "threshold" vote percentage a party must meet for representation. But the SNP polled 2 million votes and got 56 seats (+95% of Scottish constituencies), and UKIP polled 4 million votes and got 1. I loathe everything that UKIP stands for, but I don't feel that that is a proper outcome of a fair electoral system. UKIP should be countered by confronting their policies (and other parties will be entirely free not to make agreements with them in government), they aren't a justification to keep an unfair system.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, I do see that there is an argument that the vote would be represented more fairly. I think the end result would probably be more confused, with coalitions being necessary, and politics probably still pretty divided, but I agree that proportional representation could certainly be argued to at least let everyone's vote contribute to the eventual outcome.
Lizzzar