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Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
As Peter Kellner put it in the New Statesman (not the most pro-Tory publication out there) late last year
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But whatever assumptions are made, two things are clear. First, Britain's political geography is tilted heavily in Labour's favour. Labour needs only the barest lead in the popular vote to win an overall majority: not so the Conservatives. It is quite possible for the Tories to win a million more votes than Labour, and still end up with 20 fewer MPs.
Second, the gap between the overall-majority goals is vast: anything between a Labour lead of 1 per cent and a Tory lead of 10 per cent is likely to give us a hung parliament.
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Which isn't quite the same view proposed in the Labour Party Manifesto 2010
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The cost of politics to the taxpayer must be minimised, but we reject using this as an excuse to *gerrymander constituency boundaries in the interests of one political party.
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I believe the phrase used by the "kids" is ROFL.....
* Gerrymandering - boundary delimitation (redistricting) in which electoral district or constituency boundaries are deliberately modified for electoral purposes
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