2010 General Election: The Cable Forum Exit Poll

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by speedfreak

Sorry for the dumb question, but at this moment in time, whos actually running the country?

Labour as a caretaker government.

[punky]

Originally Posted by speedfreak

Sorry for the dumb question, but at this moment in time, whos actually running the country?

Brown is. He will until the Queen can install another government in his place.

Brown will be dealing with all the security issues and such that come up but he's trying to keep a low profile at the moment as he knows he lost.

[SlackDad]

Originally Posted by speedfreak

Sorry for the dumb question, but at this moment in time, whos actually running the country?

Gordon Brown is the Prime Minister and those who dispute his right to remain as PM are wrong. It's a simple fact.

He was asked to be PM by the Queen and at this moment in time is so until he resigns. Remember we don't elect a PM, we elect an MP and it is for them to decide.

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Originally Posted by punky

Brown will be dealing with all the security issues and such that come up but he's trying to keep a low profile at the moment as he knows he lost.

And, incidentally, nobody actually won.

[speedfreak]

So if some important decision needs to be made, its down to GB? Thanks as I said it might sound dumb but Im lost with whos running what at the moment

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by speedfreak

So if some important decision needs to be made, its down to GB? Thanks as I said it might sound dumb but Im lost with whos running what at the moment

Correct.

Why don't Sky Interview politicians like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJh2bTK1ew

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Damien

Why don't Sky Interview politicians like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJh2bTK1ew

because they never give an answer to the question asked ,none of them have yes or no in there vocabulary ,and turn every question on its head

[punky]

Originally Posted by Damien

Why don't Sky Interview politicians like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJh2bTK1ew

Protesters and idealistic idiots like him need to be confronted. That said she were getting on my tits by the end of the interview.

[SlackDad]

Originally Posted by punky

Protesters and idealistic idiots like him need to be confronted. That said she were getting on my tits by the end of the interview.

What do you mean protesters and idealistic idiots like him need to be confronted? That's the kind of attitude that would have meant women never got the vote...

Surely this is proof if ever it was needed that Sky News has rapidly turned into Britain's version of Fox News.

Does she really think that 65% of those eligible to vote actually voted for a hung parliament? A hung parliament was the outcome of the system; not actually what people voted for... And to be really pedantic people actually voted for their MP...

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This is amusing:

Sack Kay Burley: Watch the BBC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSlt-...eature=related

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And a piece in, of all things, the Mail online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/elec...ampaigner.html

[punky]

Originally Posted by SlackDad

What do you mean protesters and idealistic idiots like him need to be confronted? That's the kind of attitude that would have meant women never got the vote...

Nice try. Emmeline Pankhurst et al. didn't have the vote during the Suffragette movement. He did. He isn't complaining over unjust civil rights. He (and a considerable number of others) are throwing their collective teddies in the corner because they didn't get the result they wanted.

You think the protests would have happened if the Lib Dems have won? And your comments are quite insulting to the memories of those that died (including Emily Davidson) so we can vote.

[/COLOR]This is amusing:

Sack Kay Burley: Watch the BBC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSlt-...eature=related

No, its selfish. Its protesters over-inflated egos thinking that what they want to say is more important than whatever interview the viewers have tuned in for.

[danielf]

hmmmm.

A YouGov poll for The Sunday Times carried out after the election showed 62 percent of voters favored a more proportional system of voting. This was backed up by a BPIX poll for The Mail on Sunday, which found 60 percent would prefer proportional representation rather than the current system.

The Sunday Telegraph quoted an ICM poll which found 48 percent of voters favored a move to PR and 39 percent backed the current system.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6480SY20100509

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by SlackDad

Does she really think that 65% of those eligible to vote actually voted for a hung parliament? A hung parliament was the outcome of the system; not actually what people voted for... And to be really pedantic people actually voted for their MP...

It annoys me too saying that we voted for a hung parliament. especially when it wasn't even an option on the form.

Originally Posted by punky

Nice try. Emmeline Pankhurst et al. didn't have the vote during the Suffragette movement. He did. He isn't complaining over unjust civil rights. He (and a considerable number of others) are throwing their collective teddies in the corner because they didn't get the result they wanted.

You think the protests would have happened if the Lib Dems have won? And your comments are quite insulting to the memories of those that died (including Emily Davidson) so we can vote..

No. They wouldn't have done the protests if the Liberal Democrats had won because one of their key policies is to implement electoral reform. This was a key issue for them before the election and remains so afterwards, it is very disrespectful to portray it was "throwing their collective teddies in the corner because they didn't get the result they wanted".

The Conservatives "won" with a 36.1% of the vote. Hardly a mandate to wield absolute power, which without an elected second chamber is effectively what a majority government has in this country. The protesters are keen to get electoral reform without being insulted and ignored because got closer to the finish line than either other party.

He was not saying "let's change the system until we win", he is saying "let's change the system so because get the parliament they voted for. It is not a sporting event where the highest number win and everyone else is ignored, it's democracy and a key point of that should be that people are accurately represented in their government.

[NoKnowledge]

I wonder what these 48% would say IF the Prop. Rep system was in place and went tits up and ended up like Greece.

Originally Posted by NoKnowledge

I wonder what these 48% would say IF the Prop. Rep system was in place went tits up and ended up like Greece.

Greece has a majority government.