UK folks! Election 2015 - who do you think is going to win?

[Tricky]

Personally I'm not feeling confident about the outcome, but I'm really hoping we don't see Ed Miliband getting the keys to Number 10 on Friday morning :eek:

[Neil]

Personally I'm not feeling confident about the outcome, but I'm really hoping we don't see Ed Miliband getting the keys to Number 10 on Friday morning :eek:

If the startled panda gets in, I'll be ashamed of the country's short memory!

[Rancid Carcass]

Could be a Nick and Nikky grand alliance! :elol:

[MinionZombie]

If the startled panda gets in, I'll be ashamed of the country's short memory!

Yep! :stunned:

[shootemindehead]

You Brits have poor options, no doubt. Ours across the water aren't any better though.

The choice between Millie and Dave (plus the Lib Dems in the "dark room")...Jaysis wept. :barf:

[Neil]

Scotland makes me laugh at times...

I'll swear if the Conservatives had simply rebranded themselves north of the border as the SCP (Scottish Conservative Party) they would have got loads more votes!

And of course SNPs huge number of seats shows a real case for proportional representation. ie: UKIP got loads more votes than the SNP, but the SNP have 50+ seats compares top UKIP's couple. Some what daft!


EDIT: Correction. I believe UKIP have about 3m votes. SNP have about 4m.

[MinionZombie]

Scotland makes me laugh at times...

I'll swear if the Conservatives had simply rebranded themselves north of the border as the SCP (Scottish Conservative Party) they would have got loads more votes!

And of course SNPs huge number of seats shows a real case for proportional representation. ie: UKIP got loads more votes than the SNP, but the SNP have 50+ seats compares top UKIP's couple. Some what daft!

It's not quite as simple as that. UKIP gained a lot of votes, but they were spread out across various constituencies (i.e. not convincing enough people in individual seats to vote them in), and with Scotland they have large constituencies with small populations over a large chunk of land. Updating the constituency boundaries would be a good start, particularly in England.

As for Scotland: it goes to show what will eventually happen when you take your constituents for granted - for decade after decade after decade (generations!) they failed to pay attention to their voters, and did little to really improve the areas in which they were elected - if it's been bleak in a given area for generations and the MP/party representing the place has stayed the same in all that time, clearly there needs to be a change of MP in the area.

[Neil]

^^ Yes, I know how first past the post works, but it just seems insane that:-
1) UKIP have 3m votes represented by 2(?) MPs.
2) SNP has 4m votes and represents 56 MPs.

And I'm beginning to wish Scotland had "defected" given their current nationalistic attitude.

[Mike70]

On a.side note: did y'all know that your elections have started receiving a lot of news coverage over here? Rather extensive coverage too.

[MinionZombie]

On a.side note: did y'all know that your elections have started receiving a lot of news coverage over here? Rather extensive coverage too.

Really? Interesting ... makes a change, I guess.

We get so much coverage of the US elections that it does my head in - I don't know how you folks who actually live in America can stand the constant (so it feels) electioneering. The election's done, right let's get on with the mid-terms, those done, right back to the election - and it seems to go on for aaaaaaages ... although I now rarely watch TV news (due to the generally appalling nature of it), but I recall the seemingly endless campaign time for the last US election.

The official campaign in the UK was about 6 weeks, with the 'officially unofficial' campaign lead-up being since Christmas ... that was enough for us Brits, for sure, but I imagine that'd be rather short by comparison to what you folks have to endure over there, right? I suppose, to be fair, there are an awful lot more of you spread out over a much larger area ... but even still ... the US political machine seems to be in constant campaign mode. One ends and the next begins immediately, it appears.

[Mike70]

Really? Interesting ... makes a change, I guess.

We get so much coverage of the US elections that it does my head in - I don't know how you folks who actually live in America can stand the constant (so it feels) electioneering. The election's done, right let's get on with the mid-terms, those done, right back to the election - and it seems to go on for aaaaaaages ... although I now rarely watch TV news (due to the generally appalling nature of it), but I recall the seemingly endless campaign time for the last US election.

The official campaign in the UK was about 6 weeks, with the 'officially unofficial' campaign lead-up being since Christmas ... that was enough for us Brits, for sure, but I imagine that'd be rather short by comparison to what you folks have to endure over there, right? I suppose, to be fair, there are an awful lot more of you spread out over a much larger area ... but even still ... the US political machine seems to be in constant campaign mode. One ends and the next begins immediately, it appears.

Ugh. I barely go near a tv when big elections are coming up (thank you netflix) 'cause political ads are lie ridden garbage. The hoopla is more than I can bear. Then there are the State elections for Governor, the state legislature, etc. Then you can add local elections to that too (yeah). Thankfully, I live in a small village now, so those are short and to the point.