Brit politics: screwed beyond all hope of redemption.

Posted on May 8, 2015 by KG

‘Ukip win only one seat so far despite racking up millions more votes than Lib-Dems OR the SNP
Three million-plus voters have backed them but they may only get one MP
But in Scotland SNP got 56 seats despite having half the number of voters
Ukip deputy leader says current electoral system is ‘affront to democracy’

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30 Responses to Brit politics: screwed beyond all hope of redemption.

  1. Odakyu-sen says:
    May 8, 2015 at 18:47

    MMP anyone?

  2. mawm says:
    May 8, 2015 at 18:57

    I’m sure there are many more UKIP supporters who did not vote for them yesterday because they were influenced by the media campaign to vote Tory to ensure that a SNP/Labour coalition could not govern. I blame Cameron for this purely because he indicated that he would not work with or form a coalition with UKIP no matter what. The total sum of right-leaning voters – i.e. UKIP + Conservative Party, is good to see, but will this change Cameron’s progressive course?

  3. KG says:
    May 8, 2015 at 19:31

    “..but will this change Cameron’s progressive course?”
    I doubt it, Mawm. As it stands, voters simply have nowhere credible (or at least viable) to go and he knows it. He’s “progressive” by choice, not necessity.

  4. caleb says:
    May 8, 2015 at 19:32

    I’m gutted for Nigel and the UKIP voters.
    The people are not yet ready and so be it.. fools.

  5. Oswald Bastable says:
    May 8, 2015 at 19:37

    By the time they are ready, it will be too late.

    • KG says:
      May 8, 2015 at 19:40

      It’s very close to that right now, Os.

    • caleb says:
      May 8, 2015 at 19:47

      Yes, there will be a huge cost to getting back our liberty but that’s the kind of people I would want to lead.. Not these lemmings.

      • caleb says:
        May 8, 2015 at 19:50

        That’s not entirely fair, when millions vote for UKIP and get nothing. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_negative.gif

        • Yokel says:
          May 9, 2015 at 07:39

          It is the outcome of a number of things:
          1. the First Past The Post system that ignores the voters’ second preference if they can’t have their first choice,
          2. Constituencies that traditionally return hard left (Labour, Liberal Democrat, and now SNP members) have fewer voters than those that return soft left (Conservative and UKIP). This is because thinking people move out of the Socialist empires, and their populations reduce. Traditionally this is addressed by reviewing constituency boundaries every so many years. One such review was due during the last Parliament. Labour & LibDems conspired to prevent it from happening because they didn’t get their way on House of Lords “reform”, ie gutting its heritage and replacing it with a senate type body.
          3. UKIP is a seriously disfunctional party, that often is not much more than a one man band. EU Referendum blog http://www.eureferendum.com/ is written by someone who used to be Farage’s researcher in Brussels. He sometimes tells how he saw/sees it.

  6. caleb says:
    May 8, 2015 at 19:38

    Labor got back in, in Rotherham.. worse than sick!

  7. Wombat says:
    May 8, 2015 at 21:27

    The silver lining here is that there are a massive amount of UKIP voters, even if it didn’t amount to a lot of seats.

    And so what if it didn’t? What good would 15 percent of the seats do them. The commie conservatives and the commie progressives would sooner get into bed with each other than UKIP.

    This is fantastic news in my book. We all knew that Western civilisation was not going to reclaimed at the ballot box, and we need to get cosy with that ugly truth ASAP. Who doubts for a second that the globalists wouldn’t rig the election, no matter how many votes went to UKIP?

    This election ought only be viewed as a head-count for who’s going to fall on which side when the ballot box is put aside in favour of more direct solutions, and I’ll put my money on a 15 percent share comprised of patriots gutting the 85 percent of progressive welfare leeches any day of the week.

  8. G P says:
    May 8, 2015 at 22:13

    Disappointing, one party who won’t appease religious extremists.

  9. Darin says:
    May 9, 2015 at 00:59

    At least Miliband went down in flames.

  10. Flashman says:
    May 9, 2015 at 06:56

    Proof positive that voting in an election is a waste of many things…not the least, one’s psychic energy.

    • Wombat says:
      May 9, 2015 at 10:11

      It gains folks like us nothing yet requires you to sacrifice your status as a non-participant who does not consent to the outcome.

      Probably why voting is mandatory in Australia, not that I give a crap.

      • KG says:
        May 9, 2015 at 10:14

        Me neither, Wombat. A compulsory vote is as worthless as a “right” conferred by politicians.

      • Barry says:
        May 9, 2015 at 14:47

        I think it’s not actually VOTING that’s compulsory in Australia. I think it’s just attending the polling place and having your name struck off – I think you can then do what you like with the voting paper, eg write a message on it or throw it in the bin or take it home.

        • KG says:
          May 9, 2015 at 15:08

          True. But even that is an effing insult. Perhaps people of voting age should start billing the government for their time?
          All government compulsion is suspect as far as I’m concerned.

          • Barry says:
            May 9, 2015 at 15:15

            I agree it’s an insult and I too am against all government compulsion.

  11. KG says:
    May 9, 2015 at 09:58

    Hmm…a revealing headline in Fox:
    ‘Obama keeps key ally after PM David Cameron win’

  12. KG says:
    May 9, 2015 at 15:07

    With all seats declared. How many votes to elect an MP?

    SNP 25,972

    CON 34,244

    LAB 40,290

    LD 301,986

    GRN 1,157,613

    UKIP 3,881,129

  13. Brown says:
    May 10, 2015 at 08:00

    Maybe it was Cameron saying the people get to vote on membership of the EU in 2017 that did it? A lot on the UK’s social decline is the result of EU dictates so maybe that’s the pressing issue.

    • Darin says:
      May 10, 2015 at 09:40

      Am I missing something,some reason why the vote must wait until 2017?Seems to me politicians memories are short and any such promise will be well forgotten by 2017.Why not 2015 instead?

      • KG says:
        May 10, 2015 at 11:51

        Why not indeed. Possibly for the same reason his damn government has again and again promised to curb immigration, yet done fuck-all about it. :evil: