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i didn't see a thread for it so i guess i'll make one myself!

long story short: the tories got in and we're fucked.

less fucked than if ukip got in... but still pretty fucked. X:

full results shown here! i was going to link to a page but google is p effective i guess with its' new table technology. O:

We had a lil' discussion bout this (particularly the Scottish element) in the pluses/minuses, shall I link the beginning here?

ooo yes thank you!! ouo that was v interesting!

validity of fptp, lmao. fptp has been bullshit from the beginning of time. why the hell we haven't switched to av or even av+ by now god only knows.

I think we all know why
I'd support something like the D'Hondt method, though AM systems like AV+ also float my boat. While AV isn't my favourite I still regret us not voting for it a few years ago.

It was the first time I ever decided to use my vote so I put it in for Labour after thinking it over for a few weeks. Hearing about Tories not only winning in general but also taking in half the votes of my constituency actually made me feel like a right mess. Can't get my head around it really. Where I actually live got lumped in with two other areas that have always been pro-tory for as long as I can remember and it's like all 1 in 5 of us who did vote Labour as people heavily affected by cuts, the failing NHS etc, have been pushed aside.

Only thing I'm glad about is UKIP falling so flat on their face in general (despite getting 25% in our constituency!!).

I have mixed feelings about UKIP. On the one hand, I find that party to have no redeeming features, it's quite terrifying really. On the other hand, they recieved almost 4 million votes across the country and got one seat for their efforts, which is patently unfair. On the other other hand, I don't think much of a country that would vote in those numbers for such an ideology.

But that sucks, Stace The blueness of England honestly frightens me, it's gonna be another 5 years of cuts and victim-blaming. Something my mum said to me though was that the extremism of a majority tory government might breed enough unrest to actually get some justice, whereas under a milder government the problems might just simmer unaddressed. Eh, who knows.

I generally feel closest to the Labour Party but didn't vote for them because of how idiotically left wing they were this time round. Ukip in my opinion has the potential to be a really successful party but just comes across as racist and homophobic at the moment. If they concentrated more on the practical sides of immigration, education and the EU, they would get my vote, but instead they just bleat on about foreigners and benefit tourism.

I actually ended up voting Green because, through all their faults, they do come across as the most genuine and that's what I primarily look for in a party.

So Stace and I have come clean; who will be next to divulge who they voted for?

Didn't vote obviously but would have voted Labour.
To be honest it's all bollocks. Out of everyone eligible to vote, only 25% voted Tories. On top of that the people most likely to vote Labour are the young and the less economically fortunate, both groups of people that are much less likely to vote at all than the old rich hags that care about nothing but their money.

Ambidextroid wrote:On top of that the people most likely to vote Labour are the young and the less economically fortunate, both groups of people that are much less likely to vote at all than the old rich hags that care about nothing but their money.

Well that's why democracy is bollocks, it doesn't take into account the fact that we're all self-centred shits who only vote with our own best interest in mind. That being said, I have no constructive criticism to offer.

I couldn't vote for the general election as I'm not a British national, just a resident, but I would have voted for the Conservatives. There's a fair lot in their ideas I disagree with but I see them as the lesser of two (well, more than two) evils compared to Labour and the others.

I believe i'm the only one here who voted for the SNP then? For a better Scotland obviously, as none of the other parties only seem to care about "keeping the nation together" if at all, and by that I mean giving 0% shit about Scotland unless they cry for independence again.

I think you may be the only person here who could have voted for the SNP

I was about to ask in that post if you English lot, for whatever reason, could vote for SNP but ah well I think you answered that for me there.

Although I do ponder if some of our other Scottish members might be sneaking about here.

It would be funny if next time around the SNP started fielding candidates in Outer Scotland Though I don't envisage any situation under which they'd do that.

Who are/were the other Scots apart from Acarr? Hamish never joined did he?

It'd still be an amusing thought though.

Buildersith is the only other Scot coming to mind but I definitely know there's a couple more which no is not Hamish (Christ that's old stuff right there)

Ohh, I didn't realise builder too! For some reason I thought he was Oxfordshire or summat.

Funnily enough, come to think of it I don't believe I was actually there for Hamish, I must have inherited knowledge of him through osmosis

Well yeah I don't know the first thing about the SNP and I don't live in Scotland anyway.

I didn't followed the whole thing closely, but I was relieved when I saw that conservatives won, because the surveys showed very close results in the last days.
Would have voted conservative because of that, else I tend to prefer the leader of the LibDems, and their ideology is honorable.

Eh, I don't really understand why anyone would vote torys unless they're rich.

I actually agree with most of their policies, but the reason they weren't my party of choice is simply because the Tory high-flyers seem inhuman, pompous and insincere. But I certainly don't think the country is "fucked", as MLII crudely put it.