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Zaros
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ahswtini
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
 I am honestly scared for the next 5 years now with the abuse SNP will give the government in westminster. They are going there to "rock the boat" to put it nicely and well i have no idea what is going to happen. | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6322 Posts
On May 07 2015 08:35 Zaros wrote: I found this a very interesting read http://www.ncpolitics.uk/2015/05/shy-tory-factor-2015.html/ Conservatives should be heading for a majority government if true. This post deserves a quote. Congratz to Cameron and the conservatives. | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
I woke up at 5:30 at a perfect time to see Miliband speech of defeat and then Cameron's boyish speech of victory in how hard they fought. My surprise though is how much votes (not seats) UKIP actually managed to generate. My Worcestershire MPs have 3 seats, out of the 3 votes, 2 of them had UKIP candidate finishing 2nd! Crazy 37 counts to go and Conservative still need 22 more MPs for a majority! | ||
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Zaros
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KatatoniK
United Kingdom978 Posts
Flippin marvelous, another 5 years of the country going down the shitter. At least UKIP did terrible, there's some comfort in that. | ||
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
On May 08 2015 16:32 Pandemona wrote: Majority government is very sweet for Conservatives, proves that they have respect out there and people have noted what they have done. It is the biggest blow in history to Lib Dems and a huge Scottish swing to SNP to oust Labour of a huge majority of seats. Quite an exciting night. I woke up at 5:30 at a perfect time to see Miliband speech of defeat and then Cameron's boyish speech of victory in how hard they fought. My surprise though is how much votes (not seats) UKIP actually managed to generate. My Worcestershire MPs have 3 seats, out of the 3 votes, 2 of them had UKIP candidate finishing 2nd! Crazy 37 counts to go and Conservative still need 22 more MPs for a majority! ukip pretty much killed ed balls, and performed very well overall throughout the country. they didn't expect to win very many seats at all, but to build up their vote for a 2020 campaign | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
On May 08 2015 16:37 KatatoniK wrote: Tories only need 22 more seats for a majority? Flippin marvelous, another 5 years of the country going down the shitter. At least UKIP did terrible, there's some comfort in that. They did and "didn't" they had a tremendous amount of votes, they were 2nd in so many seats which is more than they expected. Physical seats they targeted like 5 and are on course for 2 of these which is not good i agree. But all the experts and analysts are calling it a huge rise in votes and how they are unlucky not to have more seats. | ||
KwarK
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ahswtini
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Zaros
United Kingdom3692 Posts
On May 08 2015 16:43 ahswtini wrote: anyone got numbers on how many seats labour lost that weren't in scotland? 7 so far | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
On May 08 2015 16:41 KwarK wrote: At least it's a majority government. I feel like this is the least bad of a number of options. Better than a Labour majority at this time, better than a coalition and hopefully with more devolution of powers the SNP won't cause too much trouble outside of Scotland. This would be ideal but wont happen mainly due to SNP leader "cannot stand" conservatives at all. It's sad that this is going to cause problems again and in 2016 an important year for SNP as some of its voters will demand a referendum again but the SNP leader said she does not want to give that. So it could get very ugly. | ||
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KatatoniK
United Kingdom978 Posts
On May 08 2015 16:41 KwarK wrote: At least it's a majority government. I feel like this is the least bad of a number of options. Better than a Labour majority at this time, better than a coalition and hopefully with more devolution of powers the SNP won't cause too much trouble outside of Scotland. The only thing worse than a Tory majority would be a UKIP majority imo. I'm struggling to think of anything in the past 5 years that I've approved of the government doing. Would Labour do much better? I'm sceptical but at least they show some semblance of caring for those who aren't as well off. | ||
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REDBLUEGREEN
Germany1904 Posts
I didn't even know the UK had a Green party until just now when I saw they got 1 seat. Woo! So who is the most ecologically minded party out of your big ones? | ||
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Zaros
United Kingdom3692 Posts
On May 08 2015 16:27 RvB wrote: This post deserves a quote. Congratz to Cameron and the conservatives. I'm glad I put my money on it  11/1 odds | ||
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Melliflue
United Kingdom1389 Posts
On May 08 2015 16:59 REDBLUEGREEN wrote: As a German I usually vote for our Green party. I didn't even know the UK had a Green party until just now when I saw they got 1 seat. Woo! So who is the most ecologically minded party out of your big ones? I would have said Lib Dems but they probably can't be considered a big party any more. Out of Labour and Conservatives... well neither really. They both put a few sops to environmentalists in their manifestos and then they try not to talk about the environment. | ||
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