The Official 2005 YakYak Election Poll

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Who gets your X in their box, then?

Conservative Party
21
13%
Labour Party
16
10%
Liberal Democrat Party
68
42%
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
0
No votes
Democratic Unionist Party
15
9%
Green Party
9
6%
Plaid Cymru
5
3%
Social Democratic and Labour Party
0
No votes
Sinn Fein
1
1%
Scottish National Party
1
1%
Scottish Socialist Party
1
1%
UK Independence Party
1
1%
Ulster Unionist Party
1
1%
Other
7
4%
Abstain
13
8%
British National Party
1
1%
Veritas
1
1%
 
Total votes: 161

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Munki wrote:Ah, understood. I thought they'd introduced a new scheme or something.
They did. Sneakily, a few years back ;)
Munki wrote:I guess that goes some way to explaining why most new graduates I've worked with in the past few years have been surprisingly useless.
Not so surprising ;)

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Stone wrote:The idea seems to be, 'Intelligent people go to university, therefore if more people go to university then there'll be more intelligent people'.
That's so true. Politicians seem to think you can teach intelligence
into a person.
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Kemper_Boyd wrote:That's so true. Politicians seem to think you can teach intelligence
into a person.
Point taken, but surely the real purpose of uni is to allow study to a greater depth in a specific subject than secondary education allows - how much benefit will it provide to someone who's going to be a hairdresser to get a BA in Beauty, offset against the cost of them going?

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Here's a handy tool for those of you who don't know who to vote for.

http://www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com/
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Ratsoap wrote:Here's a handy tool for those of you who don't know who to vote for.

http://www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com/
Apparently I should be voting for Kilroy. Hahahahahacunt.

:lol:

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UKIP are doing their bit to help recycling. I put their leaflet straight in the recycling bin. :wink:
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I still hate the whole system.

I would vote LIb Dem, but seeing them get 25% of votes and bugger all seats is always depressing.

Bring on proportional representation.

Only argument Ive heard against was along the lines of 'well germany have it and you don't want to be like them do you? Always hung parliaments, party coalition, etc.' - what, the main European economic power at the moment with a good environmental record to boot despite having to cope with gaining a whole ex-soviet country to deal with? Oh no, wouldn't want that at all... :roll:
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Using the BBC's seat calculator:

LAB 0
CON 0
LIB DEM 584
OTH 62

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Hung parliament/coalition could be the way to make REAL PROGRESS on key issues like the environment and tackling poverty...
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Hmm, judging by those results I can only conclude...

Llamasoft games turn you Liberal.

Jeff - MAKE MORE GAMES & QUICK!!!

If there were free CDs of Llamatron distributed with every Sun/Star/Express & Telegraph then the election would be sewn up in no time...
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Ratsoap wrote:Here's a handy tool for those of you who don't know who to vote for.

http://www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com/
Interesting stuff. It just about came up with who I would vote for, were the postal votes not constrained so much that I wouldn't get my vote back in time, but the UKIP result was higher than I expected.
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Mr Dom wrote:I still hate the whole system.

I would vote LIb Dem, but seeing them get 25% of votes and bugger all seats is always depressing.

Bring on proportional representation.

Only argument Ive heard against was along the lines of 'well germany have it and you don't want to be like them do you? Always hung parliaments, party coalition, etc.' - what, the main European economic power at the moment with a good environmental record to boot despite having to cope with gaining a whole ex-soviet country to deal with? Oh no, wouldn't want that at all... :roll:
We jocks have proportional representation. We've got Greens AND Socialists in our parliament.

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BLATANT THREADPISS:

As I'm leaving the country anyway (timeframe: 18 months an counting, faster if I can).... good luck, kids.
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Stone wrote:
Ratsoap wrote:Here's a handy tool for those of you who don't know who to vote for.

http://www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com/
Apparently I should be voting for Kilroy. Hahahahahacunt.

:lol:

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Labour -6
Conservative 9
Liberal Democrat 16
UK Independence Party 2
Green 28
That's that decided then.

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Kilroy just pipping the Conservatives for myself...

(mainly because I suspect I agreed with the two questions on immigration)
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