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To Victory!
Monday, April 19th, 2010 01:51 pmFrom today's Times:
Monday, April 19th, 2010
No need to change?
Monday, April 19th, 2010 06:27 pmToday's Poll of Polls (the survey that statistically combines all other surveys, if you need telling), breaks down party support thus:
This translates to the following representation in Parliament:
That means that if we had the election today, there would be a hung parliament and that Labour, despite polling third, would be the largest party. The most popular party would come second and the second most popular, polling 1% more than Labour would come a distant third.
If ever there was a demonstration of just how unrepresentative our 'representative democracy' is, there's your evidence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8609989.stm
Conservative 33%
Labour 28%
Liberal Democrats 29%
Other 10%
This translates to the following representation in Parliament:
Conservative 247 seats
Labour 280 seats
Liberal Democrats 94 seats
Other 29 seats.
That means that if we had the election today, there would be a hung parliament and that Labour, despite polling third, would be the largest party. The most popular party would come second and the second most popular, polling 1% more than Labour would come a distant third.
If ever there was a demonstration of just how unrepresentative our 'representative democracy' is, there's your evidence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8609989.stm
No need to change?
Monday, April 19th, 2010 06:27 pmToday's Poll of Polls (the survey that statistically combines all other surveys, if you need telling), breaks down party support thus:
This translates to the following representation in Parliament:
That means that if we had the election today, there would be a hung parliament and that Labour, despite polling third, would be the largest party. The most popular party would come second and the second most popular, polling 1% more than Labour would come a distant third.
If ever there was a demonstration of just how unrepresentative our 'representative democracy' is, there's your evidence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8609989.stm
Conservative 33%
Labour 28%
Liberal Democrats 29%
Other 10%
This translates to the following representation in Parliament:
Conservative 247 seats
Labour 280 seats
Liberal Democrats 94 seats
Other 29 seats.
That means that if we had the election today, there would be a hung parliament and that Labour, despite polling third, would be the largest party. The most popular party would come second and the second most popular, polling 1% more than Labour would come a distant third.
If ever there was a demonstration of just how unrepresentative our 'representative democracy' is, there's your evidence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8609989.stm