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Re: UK unemployment increases to 2.64m
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Originally Posted by Gary L
I was thinking of Hugh?
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I feel dirty now....
(and not in a good way  )
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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
It's owner Phillip Green does
It is increasingly interfering in the process of buying rolling stock, plus it effectly provides the money
The sooner they call a general election the better
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They can't, due to the Fixed Term Parliament Act
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How often are general elections held?
The date of the next general election is set at 7 May 2015 after the Fixed Term Parliament Act was passed on 15 September 2011.
The act provides for general elections to be held on the first Thursday in May every five years. There are two provisions that trigger an election other than at five year intervals.
A motion of no confidence is passed in Her Majesty's Government by a simple majority and 14 days elapses without the House passing a confidence motion in any new Government formed
A motion for a general election is agreed by two thirds of the total number of seats in the Commons including vacant seats (currently 434 out of 650)
Previous to this act, the duration of a Parliament was set at five years, although many were dissolved before that, at the*request of the Prime Minister to the Queen.
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