UK General Election thread

[Hauldren Collider]

In a solidly left wing seat British people are free to vote for third parties like the SNP, and in a solidly right wing seat UKIP.

They are free to vote for them, but they won't win. In the US, someone who would be the equivalent of a UKIP candidate would just run in the primary. Obviously our system isn't perfect but I think it does a better job.

[C0ckney]

The fact that the UKIP only won one or two seats despite getting something like 10% of the vote is pretty much proof positive the UK electoral system needs some serious fixing. Do y'all have open primaries like we have over here?

this is very true. over 5 million people voted for either UKIP or the greens, result, 1 MP each. 5 million people represented by 2 MPs. unfortunately there's about as much chance of electoral reform being passed as of you joining the communist party.

[Hauldren Collider]

Hahahahahaha
eat the hat you pussy

http://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/paddy-ashdown-refuses-eat-hat-5658572

[Imran Siddiqui]

They are free to vote for them, but they won't win. In the US, someone who would be the equivalent of a UKIP candidate would just run in the primary. Obviously our system isn't perfect but I think it does a better job.

Well, it's basically the same system only that third parties have a greater importance in the UK. The US has its Greens, Libertarians, Socialists - but those parties are generally tiny. Mostly because the Republicans and Democrats try to convince the third parties sympathizers that they are a "big tent". However, who knows if that will last - it does not, it may not forever.

[giblets]

He should make a hat out of food

[kentonio]

The question now becomes whether that majority will actually hold up for 4-5 years. If they enact some of the things I suspect they might, we may well end up with another election much sooner.

[Ben Kenobi]

And Farage leaving UKIP is just rubbish. The party was the ultimate winner today.

[Hauldren Collider]

This is why we can't trust the pundits. If you say you'll eat your hat and then don't, how are we supposed to gauge the force of your convictions?

[kentonio]

And Farage leaving UKIP is just rubbish. The party was the ultimate winner today.

It actually beggars belief how utterly and insanely wrong you are about basically everything. Today was an appalling result for UKIP, which is why Farage resigned you idiot.

[Ben Kenobi]

The question now becomes whether that majority will actually hold up for 4-5 years. If they enact some of the things I suspect they might, we may well end up with another election much sooner.

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast/
Man never is but always to be blest"

[C0ckney]

The question now becomes whether that majority will actually hold up for 4-5 years. If they enact some of the things I suspect they might, we may well end up with another election much sooner.

there'll be a lot of right-wing tory troublemakers who will relish the opportunity to stick their oars in once the euphoria dies down. it may end up looking a bit like john major's government.

[regexcellent]

Unless MPs switch parties isn't a majority immune from a vote of no confidence and other election triggers?

[Hauldren Collider]

**** all this talk about parties and ****. The real important issue in britain is whether that random BBC pundit will man up and eat his goddamn hat.

[C0ckney]

It actually beggars belief how utterly and insanely wrong you are about basically everything. Today was an appalling result for UKIP, which is why Farage resigned you idiot.

quadrupling their number of votes can hardly be described as appalling.

[Ben Kenobi]

It actually beggars belief how utterly and insanely wrong you are about basically everything. Today was an appalling result for UKIP, which is why Farage resigned you idiot

UKIP was the ultimate election winner today with a jump of 9.5 percent of the electorate. 3x that of SNP.

Farage is clearly not the problem. Seats will come, they have the right vision and are on the right course. Expecting a party with less than 2 percent to jump in and take 10+ seats is not reasonable, even though that's essentially what they accomplished votewise. They have a broad base, like the Tories and Labor.