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On the one hand, David Cameron wants us to vote no. On the other, Nick Clegg would like us to vote yes. As there doesn’t appear to be any way to ensure that they both lose, this puts me in a dilemma. I might actually have to vote based on the facts.
Has anyone made up their mind yet?
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With first past the post you need to win the county to elect an mp.
With proportional systems the parties with smaller percentagees can elect some mps. Then there is also the "enforced proportional system", to avoid hung parliaments. In this they have a first distribution of seats followed by a second distribution, in which the so called "unused remainders" count.
It will come to the same thing. Con-Lab first, Lib third and maybe some independents here and there.In the proportional system the mps are elected with the "cross system" i.e. you state your preference among a list of candidates, but it is also possible to a have predecided order in those lists.
With the last option the party rules everything and the mps are toy soldiers.The number of phone calls I receive from mp’s offices when elections are near is infinite.
As if they care the rest of the time.
In one occasion I had a brief chat with a ministry parking assistant, while waiting for my car, and the man gave my name upstairs, so they phoned me after a few days ! I said "all this is very nice my good girl, but the party is kaput, dead like dead meat". To this she said "yesssss, errrrrr, hmmmmmm".I couldn’t care less either way.
Whoever wins any election & by whatever method, they’ll still be an unscrupulous thieving ****** once they take office.
Made a last minute decision to vote yes, the reason being that I thought it could mean that people hoping to get elected would actually say what THEY thought and believed rather than just spout out party propoganda. Of course I’m probably totally wrong about this, but it made sense to me at the time.
I voted Yes. Living in a town where there has never been anything other than a Tory MP – well, apart from the days when there was a feudal Lord of the Manor who used to bait bears in the pit at the Saracen’s Head, and hunt mud-encrusted serfs through Blidworth Woods with his bloodthirsty Norman pals* – I guess I had no choice.
The interesting thing is the turnout. On the Electoral Officer’s address register, there were hardly any ticks. Do people care?
*Come to think of it, local Tory grandee Patrick Mercer is ex-Cavalry. And old Roger the Drunkard on the Burgage hasn’t been seen for at least a
month…
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