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Post by jean on May 12, 2011 8:59:56 GMT
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Post by aubrey on May 12, 2011 16:06:25 GMT
yay!
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Post by everso on May 12, 2011 17:57:57 GMT
What if it had been done under AV? And supposing the Green candidate had only achieved 49.5% of the vote. I wonder who would have won then?
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Post by trubble on May 13, 2011 8:53:22 GMT
Congratulations Jean, and welcome back.  |
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Post by jean on May 13, 2011 9:10:26 GMT
Not to mention Happy Birthday to me.
The AV thing is interesting. What if John hadn't got 50%? What would Labour second preferences have been?
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Post by trubble on May 13, 2011 9:19:57 GMT
 Indeed, a very happy birthday indeed! By the above figures, even if all of Labour's votes had transferred to Liberal Democrats, the Green Party would still be ahead. |
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Post by trubble on May 13, 2011 9:20:45 GMT
Or the other way around.
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Post by trubble on May 13, 2011 9:22:52 GMT
What I'm saying is, your green party fella would have to be extremely divisive to lose: extremely popular with one half of the electorate and extremely unpopular with every other part of the electorate, so much so that they don't even give him a number 3 or 4 vote.
What I'm saying is, he'd win. The point is: you can't get fooled twice.
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Post by jean on May 13, 2011 9:55:09 GMT
Thank you for your input. I'm just working through it.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 13, 2011 16:02:13 GMT
These greens are loons, they would drag us back to the dark ages with all their wacky ideas.
Sorry, they'll never get my vote.
AH
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Post by riotgrrl on May 13, 2011 17:09:20 GMT
I wouldn't go so far as to call the Greens 'loons', but they're a bit hair-shirted for my liking. Now Alex Salmond arrived to announce he'd taken over the world in a helicopter. A bit flash, a bit Essex, (a bit East Aberdeenshire really!) but it's better than some Green leader who'd no doubt turn up on a bike. With a helmet on.
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Post by everso on May 13, 2011 17:24:56 GMT
I wouldn't go so far as to call the Greens 'loons', but they're a bit hair-shirted for my liking. Now Alex Salmond arrived to announce he'd taken over the world in a helicopter. A bit flash, a bit Essex, (a bit East Aberdeenshire really!) but it's better than some Green leader who'd no doubt turn up on a bike. With a helmet on. I do believe you are correct. Alex Salmond is a bit Essex boy-ish, yes. He has panache. [everso get's her Collin's children's dictionary out to look up 'panache'] |
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Post by riotgrrl on May 13, 2011 17:27:54 GMT
I wouldn't go so far as to call the Greens 'loons', but they're a bit hair-shirted for my liking. Now Alex Salmond arrived to announce he'd taken over the world in a helicopter. A bit flash, a bit Essex, (a bit East Aberdeenshire really!) but it's better than some Green leader who'd no doubt turn up on a bike. With a helmet on. I do believe you are correct. Alex Salmond is a bit Essex boy-ish, yes. He has panache. [everso get's her Collin's children's dictionary out to look up 'panache'] Like Essex, East Aberdeenshire is a bit 'new money', you know? But the sight of that helicopter - Saltire 1 - bringing him to Edinburgh to declare that he's won, the 2nd General Election in a row, was a moving one. Incidentally, are you getting the same telly as us on Sunday? Portillo on Salmond - former Thatcherite Minister Portillo follows Salmond round the campaign trail and makes a documentary/biography type programme about it. It looks great. |
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Post by everso on May 13, 2011 17:29:53 GMT
Haven't seen anything about it.
BTW are you in the Chat room tonight?
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Post by Weyland on May 13, 2011 20:06:33 GMT
[everso get's her Collin's children's dictionary out to look up 'panache'] Tut tut. Touch of the old East Aberdeenshires there. ~ I met a young lad in the local this evening who is en route from Land's End to John o' Groats on his push-bike. Didn't pick the best route, I'd say. |
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Post by everso on May 13, 2011 22:02:32 GMT
[everso get's her Collin's children's dictionary out to look up 'panache'] ~ I met a young lad in the local this evening who is en route from Land's End to John o' Groats on his push-bike. Didn't pick the best route, I'd say. Godalmighty, that was a typo! Honest. My fingers didn't know what they were doing. Arggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by Weyland on May 14, 2011 9:03:57 GMT
Godalmighty, that was a typo! Honest. My fingers didn't know what they were doing. Arggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not to worry. No harm done to the audience. While I'm here . . . It's Collins.  Let's be careful out there! W "The Honour is to Serve" Y |
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Post by everso on May 14, 2011 16:09:30 GMT
Godalmighty, that was a typo! Honest. My fingers didn't know what they were doing. Arggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not to worry. No harm done to the audience. While I'm here . . . It's Collins.Let's be careful out there! W "The Honour is to Serve" Y Well fuckadoodledoo!  |
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Post by Weyland on May 14, 2011 16:14:42 GMT
Well fuckadoodledoo! No, no — no need to thank me!  |
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Indeed, a very happy birthday indeed! 
