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Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has been appointed as a junior Minister in the HoL, she of the dodgy expenses claim for porn movies watched by her husband.

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Not that he can remember though.

Would we be happy with perpetual coalitions ? After all, you would still be voting for a single party rather than a selection.

Yes, but LD's point about regional parties/issues is something that PR would dilute. The thing about the US Electoral College is to prevent the more densely populated States dominating the more 'empty' ones in the Midwest. I'm not sure these 2 situations actually bear comparison.

On the single issue question, how many Tories in the previous Government got in purely to ''Get Brexit Done'' ?

The LDs and Greens would show a better votes/seats ratio if they concentrated more on seats they might win rather than putting up candidates across the board. Alternatively, under PR, where would protest and local interest independents go ? How would the successful pro-Gaza MPs have faired ? How do you run by-elections ?

Votes per seat will always be skewed in favour of the winner;

I suspect we will get an interim leader who will operate whilst the party fights internally for it's new identity, then in 3 years time the person to take them into the next GE, and probably lose, will emerge.

Tubthumping by Chumbawamba.

The "threat" of deportation has not been tested as nobody has actually been deported.

Would you leave a proportion of HoC seats vacant to account for the wishes of those who don't vote, for whatever reason ? After all, their views are equally as valid as those that vote.

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Are you not concerned that people voted for Count Binface, thinking it was a good idea. Or the thousands that voted for pro-Gaza independents ? At least we only have 4 MPs of that ilk, France could easily end up with worse actually running the country.

Democracy is a bitch.

What about Lammy makes you think he isn't 'serious' ?

'In our 14 years in power we did not do enough to tackle the legacy we had been left'.

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Poole goes Labour by 18 votes.

Pro : Starmer has won, the Tories have imploded Con : the vote share is hardly an endorsement Pro : Starmer has enough MPs to be able to ignore the headbangers on the left Con : He is stimied by the shitshow he has inherited from Sunak and Truss Pro : We should have a stable and consistent Government for the full term Con : With a majority of 170 how can the Government be held to account by the opposition

As Nicola Sturgeon said last night, 'Welcome to First Past The Post'.

And I will happily agree that less than40% of the vote should not give a majority of 170 .

Do they have bridges in Great Yarmouth ?

Reform win 4 seats, puts them on a par with the Greens.