badgerx16

I fear for humanity if you and Scally are the future.

In similar vein; What makes me feel old ? I was born closer to 1900 than today. 😞

I gave the name, easier thing for folks to GOOGLE - yah boo sucks to you !

Beat you to it, ha !!!!!

If you include the 7 years war, which was indeed a globally spread conflict, there have been 3. After all, the 14-18 war, ( or 17-18 if you are American ), was commonly named the Great War at the time.

Who shot JFK? I always thought it was the Roswell Alien, aided and abetted by the KKK.

No he wasn't.

Slight contradiction there.

Gesture

GM obviously needs all the "help" he can get.

Let's get onboard with them then - we have plenty enough sources for oranges.

Aren't the Palestinians the only Arabs without oil ?

He's somehow got out of his cage and found the key to the liquor cabinet again !

Agreed

Repeating bs doesn't alter the fact that it is bs.

You think FPTP works, I think it's crap. Let's agree to differ.

Extreme hypothetical example; Party #1 wins 51% of the vote in 326 seats, 0% in the others. Wins majority with slightly over 25% of the vote. Party #2 wins 0% of the vote in those 326 seats, 51% of the vote in the others. Wins slightly under 25% of the vote. Party #3 wins 49% of the vote in all 650 seats - gains no seats.

Not if you intend to vote Green in a safe Tory seat. For a large proportion of the seats in a GE the result can be predicted with a great degree of certainty.

Of course it does, second ( or third ) placed votes only serve to reduce the winning majority, none of those voters get any level of the representation they desired.

True, but it is a 2 party system, so the disparity between votes cast and seats won is reduced.

Wilko

If you are in a safe Surrey Tory seat, how does a vote for the Greens count ? How do the almost 60% of votes cast, that went against the Tories, register in Parliament ? In theory a party could get 49% of the vote and gain 0 seats.

Democracy is supposed to be the will of the people, not of areas of land. Has any UK Government in the last hundred years had a majority of the votes cast, let alone a majority of the electorate ? Certainly not Blair or Thatcher with their 100+ majorities in the HoC.

Deepdale - the only league ground I actually got to play on. Lancaster City's ground, mainly for the name - The Giant Axe.

Sometimes 3 times in a single year.