Just a nitpick, but that's the SNP's expected timeline. England could in theory cut Scotland free the day after the referendum.
Who do you vote for in 2015 General Election?
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Just a nitpick, but that's the SNP's expected timeline. England could in theory cut Scotland free the day after the referendum.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
England (sic) can do no such thing you monstrous idiot.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Why should there be a fixed term parliament? We've only got one ATM because of the Con LibDem coalition agreement, they haven't changed the electoral system to make them obligatory for all time, have they?
Surely the power to dissolve parliament and call an election will belong to whoever is PM, unless I really haven't been paying attention.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You haven't been paying attention.
andysays
Love and solidarity
So we do now have fixed term parliaments as an obligatory thing?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It's the legal set up now, yes.
Bahnhof Strasse
Let's av ya fuckin' dancin'!
Yes, so fuck 'em all.
Any spoilt vote, however witty, is just a vote that the voter was too simple to cast correctly. Gives them the idea that the proles will accept any shite handed down if they can't even put a cross in a box.
Voting changes fuck all, so why bother playing their game and giving them legitimacy?
andysays
Love and solidarity
I stand corrected then. I thought/assumed it was just a one off.
at self.That's actually quite a significant change, but obviously old news to everyone but me.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
How could you have one-off fixed date election? It's possible i suppose...but...you know the lib-dems are now bad right?I stand corrected then. I thought/assumed it was just a one off.
That's actually quite a significant change, but obviously old news to everyone but me.
For the moment, however there's a principle that no parliament can bind a future parliament so they could easily set it aside.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You mean parliament can change laws? We learn as we walk.
andysays
Love and solidarity
My understanding was that they'd agreed as part of the coalition deal that this parliament would be ther full five years, to prevent Cameron from having the ability to call a snap election when he thought it would be to his advantage.
Quite how that would work legally/constitutionally I don't pretend to know. If it is instead how you say it is, I'm surprised there wasn't more made of it, because it removes one of the significant powers the PM has traditionally had.
So was it a long term aim of the LibDems rather than just a short term way of forming a coalition?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yep.
andysays
Love and solidarity
OK, I obviously wasn't paying attention.
At least Clegg can point to one thing he's achieved by going into coalition then. Not sure if it will help him when the LibDems get stuffed.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
His support was based on pre-govt cycles of electoral opposition and so vote getting - now, post-govt, it's only going to hammer them. Another thing they got wrong. They're getting wiped out. The murdering cunts.
hash tag
Lighting the blue touch paper
Worthy of a bump. People talked about tactical voting at the last election; in hindsight, I am assuming it did not work then. I know wisend wrinklies who vote tactically and I know people that don't vote for who they believe in, because they have no chance of being elected either locally or nationally.
In hindsight, did people vote tactically and have they learnt their lesson or will they be voting tactically again?
In hindsight, did people vote tactically and have they learnt their lesson or will they be voting tactically again?
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