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And between elections you can do forecasting for the Weather Service! 
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And Balls Up is now Balls Out. It's a headline makers dream.
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Balls dropped?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nigel Farage, Ed Balls, Vince Cable, and George Galloway have all lost their seats. I'm a Celebrity is going to be amazing this year!
veni bibi saltavi
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Don't forget Charles Kennedy. He's always good on TV.
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They should get him on a Friday night debate show, with DD.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And the petulant, naughty, noisy boy now has to resign!
Not an unhappy turn of events -- he says he's never felt happier, and I'm sure that many agree with him.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I really do detest racism and this has tickled me pink.
veni bibi saltavi
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Racism is a stupid waste of energy, for everyone involved.
I've never been able to see what anyone gains from it -- pr1cks like Farage may think they're gaining something, and may even make a little bit of money out of it, but it won't make them live longer.
In fact, the stress of being angry at such ridiculous things will shorten your life, if anything.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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He gave a resignation speech on the top of cliff and no fecker pushed him off!
veni bibi saltavi
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I think that's quite sad. It would have been fun to see him actually trying to make his voice heard in the House.
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If all goes to predictions, Cameron's victory will have led to the resignation of three party leaders. I'm not sure this has ever happened before.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: resignation of three party leaders
Which one(s) will you miss? 
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Good, good.
I had a bet on the kippers getting no more than one seat.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: I had a bet on the kippers getting no more than one seat.
Not really a reflection on their actual support. They actually got roughly the same number of votes as the SNP.
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Oh.
I'd better turn down the money then.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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They actually got over twice the votes of SNP and nearly as many votes as the whole of Scotland
UKIP = 1 MP, SNP = 56 MPs
you may start to think that the system has a flaw
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: you may start to think that the system has a flaw
We know that: it elects MPs...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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hey you get the Donkey MP you vote for
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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It's not the system that has a flaw ....
Direct comparison of the total votes cast is ridiculous. Only if in every constituency in which a UKIP candidate stood there was also an SNP candidate (or the ballot paper allowed someone to indicate that they would have voted SNP if there'd been an opportunity) would it even begin to make sense. It is the votes per candidate that count. In the seats that SNP won the majority were achieved with outright victories of 50%+ of the vote (even under PR, in other words, these would have been SNP wins). Even UKIPs best results came nowhere near that figure.
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Not really, the flaw is that so few votes/MP in Scotland, no ware else in the Country are the constituencies so small, that they voted for the SNP (and Labour before them) is their right but why should that give them a disproportional amount of say in a UK Government?
Why is my vote worth less than that of a Scot?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: Why is my vote worth less than that of a Scot?
The constituency size is somewhat over played here. The majority of the smallest constituencies are actually in Wales and there only 8 in the whole country with populations of less than 50000. And of course, the smallest constituency of all actually bucked the trend in Scotland and returned a LibDem!
The question is also somewhat disingenuous. Voters in the largest constituency of all, the Isle Of Wight with 110000 might just as easily ask the same question of those in Wolverhampton South at just 63000.
It's interesting to note that nobody seemed terribly concerned about disproportionate representation when Conservatives commanded over 50% of the vote in Scotland (yes, it happened!) nor Labour in its turn, nor indeed when LibDems were dominant in the Highlands and Islands. Electoral Reform is only ever popular with those parties who are worst placed to bring it about. Funny that!
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Whilst electoral reform is unlikely I do foresee boundary changes occurring, as a reduction in the number of MPs in Scotland by even significant number would at worst cause the conservatives to lose 1 seat yet can have a big effect on the anti tory parties
the problem with proportional representation is that to form a government a party has to compromise and that imparts a disproportional amount of power to the minority parties
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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It's actually a shame really. At least he made politics interesting.
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