Election predictions.

pete. the way we elect a government is completely out dated and we are in really bad need of using the proportional representation system or one of the AV systems put forward. you are right in saying that the party with less votes can become the government, this happened last election and is why we have a con/dem government at the min

 

I'm not even going to vote
All the flyers that come through the door goes straight onto the fire, nice a warm in here

 

I totally agree with you. I have friends who live in Stonehaven which is a sort of suburb of Aberdeen and work for Schlumberger who are 100% allied to the oil and gas industry. They knew about 18 months prior to the crash that it was imminent and put off having a house extension built due to job uncertainty. Am I meant to believe Alex and his sidekick Nichola didn't also know if little miss me did?

After The Referendum and the bottom fell out of the oil market I heard John Swinney I think it was, waxing lyrical that the oil price was pretty well irrelevent to the success of an Independant Scotland. I almost swallowed my tongue in disbelief as for the previous 5 years we'd heard nothing but how incredibly rich Scotland was due to our oil and gas (gas reserves which are down to the preverbial peep! so I'm reliably informed).

I can see Scotland having multi flaming referendums a la Canada until the SNP get the vote they want. They bang on about being so democratic...to the 55% who voted NO or just to those who agree with them?

 

I don't see a hung parliament as a bad thing,it prevents things from becoming to radical or it has done over the last five years.
In the real world it won't make MUCH difference who gets in,the same old civil servants will oversee moderation.

Well that's what I have assumed up until now.
We now have lots of votes going to UKIP,Greens,Snp. Etc.
To stem immigration we would have to leave Europe..........so we make the rules.
I don't think we should break away as such.............these are difficult times.

If you read the Daily mail or the Sun you can only see a Conservative landslide................but of course not everybody reads these rags.

The Times They Are A Changing..........................Bob Dylan.

 

Regardless of personal views and political dogma from mp`s the UK will split up. UK national debt is £1.5 Trillion pounds going up by £90 Billion a year.
When interest rates rise back to normal say 5% ish that will be circa £90 Billion a year interest payments in 2018.
When the UK defaults we may all need to be growing vegetables in our gardens just to get by

 

I was under the impression that the conservatives won the election last time round, regarding seats they held.
Then went on to join the Lib/Dems, ( who lets face it will join any one in order to get a bit of power).
As to how many votes each party gets, I'd not like to say, as I dont think in the system we have now, makes much difference.

Personally I'd prefer a system where by we get a second vote once all non serious morons have been eliminated.

 

They did (link).