UK General Election- May 6th

[MikeH]

UKIP = Posh BNP

[OzzyKP]

it's hard to recall the exact wording (it was 5 years ago after all!), but the language used would have been better suited to explaining the issues to 10 year olds. there were things about the economy, tuition fees, the iraq war, some local issues, but everything was presented in such simple terms, completely lacking in nuance and seemed to assume that those to whom it was directed knew nothing about politics or the issues facing the country. it would have been a lot more honest if they'd written it in crayon.

the most frustrating thing was that i actually agreed with a lot of lib dem policy in those areas.

Again, do something about it besides complaining on the Internet. Complain to the LibDems themselves.

[MikeH]

If you got your way they'd have to write the leaflets so they could explain it to 10 year olds.

[OzzyKP]

10 year olds are smarter than they are given credit for.

[Krill]

10 year olds are smarter than they are given credit for.

Go become a teacher, and you'll realise just how thick anyone under the age for 16 really is.

[MikeH]

Ironically it turns out the Lib Dems actually dumbed down the leaflets for C0ckney.

[MikeH]

10 year olds are probably smarter than teenagers because they don't think they know everything.

[OzzyKP]

Go become a teacher, and you'll realise just how thick anyone under the age for 16 really is.

Well good thing I'm lowering the voting age to 16 then (and so are the LibDems & Labor if elected).

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Well good thing I'm lowering the voting age to 16 then

Ageist.

[Dauphin]

Which constituency do voters with no fixed address in the UK vote in. e.g. if you are British citizen who is overseas for any particular reason.

[Dauphin]

Previous registered address, I assume, but that seems odd that you can vote for someone in a place you no longer live.

[MikeH]

It's the last constituency for which you were registered. And yes, but if you are resident overseas it doesn't matter which constituency you vote for it's somewhere you don't live.

[Dauphin]

I was thinking it might be more appropriate to have an "overseas" constituency.

[MikeH]

Interesting stats:

Although estimates of the number of British expats vary from 5.5 to 13 million, there are only about 13,000 overseas voters registered in the UK.

http://www.dopolitics.org.uk/audiance/overseas-voters?queries_audiance_query=Overseas_voters

So the registered voters would be a smallish constituency, but if everyone registered it'd be giant.

[C0ckney]

up to 13 million? that's a lot of people, i never thought the number would be that high. although having said that, i'm emigrating in just over a week, so perhaps i shouldn't be too surprised...