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to want another general election to be held now?

22 replies

BAFE · 11/05/2010 13:13

For God's sake, lets just hold another general election and settle this once and for all.

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nikki1978 · 11/05/2010 13:15

Best not being that it costs about £80 million to do so ;)

compo · 11/05/2010 13:16

The result would be the same

BendyBob · 11/05/2010 13:17

I know. Just keep going till we get a winner and then maybe we can have a bit of peace again. We're in so much debt already, what's another 80million?

BAFE · 11/05/2010 13:17

£80 million pound to print some voting slips off and organise some staff to supervise people putting said voting slips in ballot box ?

Even if it does (which I doubt, although labour would like us to believe it), it will probably still work out cheaper than the mess a rainbow coalition will get us in.

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McDreamy · 11/05/2010 13:17

It doesn't seem right that the party with the fewest number of seats (out of the main 3) is the one making the eventual decision.

TheFallenMadonna · 11/05/2010 13:18

Do you think it would settle things? I wouldn't change my vote.

BAFE · 11/05/2010 13:20

More people would vote, so yes, I think it would change things.

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vintage · 11/05/2010 13:21

i think some people just mean keep on voting till the Tories get in

MissAnneElk · 11/05/2010 13:22

I don't think more people would vote. Turnout was quite high anyway.

BAFE · 11/05/2010 13:23

LOL, vintage, that's exactly what I mean .

What was the turnout, anyone?

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BendyBob · 11/05/2010 13:23

Hopefully more people would get to vote next time. (I'm thinking of those people who were told they couldn't cos they were stuck in a queue.)

wannaBe · 11/05/2010 13:23

I think what they should do is that the parties should have a sing-off x-factor stylee, and they should then open the phone lines and the leader with the most votes wins.

And the money raised through the phone votes should be ploughed back into the economy.

BAFE · 11/05/2010 13:24

Grin Grin Grin

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compo · 11/05/2010 13:25

£80 million pound to print some voting slips off and organise some staff to supervise people putting said voting slips in ballot box ?

Pmsl are you joking or are you really that naive?!

Yes lets close my kids school yet again so we can have another hung parliament

and IMO less people would vote cos it was a waste of time last time

I voted for my local mp on his policies
people don't vote for cameron brown or clegg

aarrgghh, maybe you should take this to the politics board

wannaBe · 11/05/2010 13:26

or perhaps they should send all the mp's into the big brother house and we can watch them on television for six weeks and every night we vote one out.

NoahAndTheWhale · 11/05/2010 13:27

I really don't think another election straight away would produce a different result. And given that my constituency got even more conservative (55% of the voters voted for them) there would really be no point in my voting for anyone else and it would be possible I wouldn't vote at all.

NoahAndTheWhale · 11/05/2010 13:29

I like wannabe's ideas

posieparker · 11/05/2010 13:30

Perhaps the remaining people who haven't voted should vote????

Gracie123 · 11/05/2010 13:31

I second the big brother idea. It would definitely be more interesting to watch, and I like the idea of voting away the people we definitely don't want first, so that they can't sneak back in with the fewest number of votes.

A govt we hate least is probably easier to find...

TheCrackFox · 11/05/2010 13:33

I hate Wannabes idea. Can you not remember George Galloway acting like a cat? What would a full house of MPs get up to?

ToxtethOGrady · 11/05/2010 13:37

The turnout was about 65% I think.

Perhaps could be settled by completing the phrase "I want to Prime Minister because...." in 15 words or fewer.

MorrisZapp · 11/05/2010 13:54

It's shocking that some people didn't get to vote but I doubt it was anything like enough people to seriously affect numbers or outcomes.

We vote in our millions, and they were locked out in their hundreds.

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