Fucking electoral system. They've had the largest increase in the vote share since 2010.
Quote from: Meta Cognition on May 07, 2015, 11:24:08 PMFucking electoral system. They've had the largest increase in the vote share since 2010.If I'm not mistaken, it's not too dissimilar for how the electoral system works for US Congressional elections.
Quote from: Not Comms Officer on May 07, 2015, 11:31:45 PMQuote from: Meta Cognition on May 07, 2015, 11:24:08 PMFucking electoral system. They've had the largest increase in the vote share since 2010.If I'm not mistaken, it's not too dissimilar for how the electoral system works for US Congressional elections.Yeah, it's virtually the same. Your vote share means nothing if it isn't sufficiently concentrated in a certain district/constituency.
I mean, it's kind of hilarious how they have 3 million+ votes... and one seat.GG
Quote from: Fedorekd on May 08, 2015, 01:28:30 AMThis is the only time I'm going to be thankful for FPTP, that UKIP aren't getting more seats.Didn't you like UKIP?
This is the only time I'm going to be thankful for FPTP, that UKIP aren't getting more seats.
You know I dislike UKIP, but it's bullshit how they only get one seat. It's also bullshit how the SNP has 5% of all voters and gets 54 seats. We really need to get rid of FPTP.
Quote from: Not Comms Officer on May 08, 2015, 03:25:05 AMQuote from: Incan on May 08, 2015, 03:20:32 AMYou know I dislike UKIP, but it's bullshit how they only get one seat. It's also bullshit how the SNP has 5% of all voters and gets 54 seats. We really need to get rid of FPTP.A quick comparison between the US and UK is sort of funny honestly.The UK has 1 representative in House of Commons for every 97,203 people.While the US has 1 representative in the House of Representatives for every 709,760 people.So the UK has 7.3 times more representatives per person than the US.No, that's just percentages based on population size. There aren't actually 7 more representatives in government.
Quote from: Incan on May 08, 2015, 03:20:32 AMYou know I dislike UKIP, but it's bullshit how they only get one seat. It's also bullshit how the SNP has 5% of all voters and gets 54 seats. We really need to get rid of FPTP.A quick comparison between the US and UK is sort of funny honestly.The UK has 1 representative in House of Commons for every 97,203 people.While the US has 1 representative in the House of Representatives for every 709,760 people.So the UK has 7.3 times more representatives per person than the US.
So the UK has 7.3 times more representatives per person than the US.
Quote from: Not Comms Officer on May 09, 2015, 07:19:00 PMQuote from: challengerX on May 08, 2015, 05:06:34 AMQuote from: Not Comms Officer on May 08, 2015, 03:25:05 AMQuote from: Incan on May 08, 2015, 03:20:32 AMYou know I dislike UKIP, but it's bullshit how they only get one seat. It's also bullshit how the SNP has 5% of all voters and gets 54 seats. We really need to get rid of FPTP.A quick comparison between the US and UK is sort of funny honestly.The UK has 1 representative in House of Commons for every 97,203 people.While the US has 1 representative in the House of Representatives for every 709,760 people.So the UK has 7.3 times more representatives per person than the US.No, that's just percentages based on population size. There aren't actually 7 more representatives in government.That's exactly what I said.QuoteSo the UK has 7.3 times more representatives per person than the US.As in, the UK has about 0.00001 representatives per person, and the US has about 0.0000016 representatives per person.Except it's just a useless percentage based on population size. It has nothing to do with how represented anybody is.
Quote from: challengerX on May 08, 2015, 05:06:34 AMQuote from: Not Comms Officer on May 08, 2015, 03:25:05 AMQuote from: Incan on May 08, 2015, 03:20:32 AMYou know I dislike UKIP, but it's bullshit how they only get one seat. It's also bullshit how the SNP has 5% of all voters and gets 54 seats. We really need to get rid of FPTP.A quick comparison between the US and UK is sort of funny honestly.The UK has 1 representative in House of Commons for every 97,203 people.While the US has 1 representative in the House of Representatives for every 709,760 people.So the UK has 7.3 times more representatives per person than the US.No, that's just percentages based on population size. There aren't actually 7 more representatives in government.That's exactly what I said.QuoteSo the UK has 7.3 times more representatives per person than the US.As in, the UK has about 0.00001 representatives per person, and the US has about 0.0000016 representatives per person.
reading all the cuts and shit the tories wanna do christ, jesus fucking christ
Quote from: goots on May 09, 2015, 07:24:07 PMreading all the cuts and shit the tories wanna do christ, jesus fucking christ>cuts the shit out of NHS>complains of how shitty NHS is despite the fact that was because of all of the cutsThe cycle continues.#TorieLogic
Quote from: Not Comms Officer on May 09, 2015, 07:25:26 PMQuote from: goots on May 09, 2015, 07:24:07 PMreading all the cuts and shit the tories wanna do christ, jesus fucking christ>cuts the shit out of NHS>complains of how shitty NHS is despite the fact that was because of all of the cutsThe cycle continues.#TorieLogicnhs isn't the only issue http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/what-does-five-more-years-of-the-tories-mean-for-britain-10236176.htmlhttp://i100.independent.co.uk/article/7-laws-the-lib-dems-stopped-the-tories-from-passing--gkKwqOshgb