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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Jun 8, 2017 16:09:45 GMT -5
I hope the exit poll is accurate, that would be a pretty decent result
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Post by Hermes on Jun 8, 2017 16:33:12 GMT -5
We'll see. Wasn't a hung parliament predicted last time?
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Jun 8, 2017 16:43:18 GMT -5
yes, but i think even if the conservatives won by a slim majority (which would require the exit poll to be more inaccurate than last time, or since the 90s) i think a slim majority is better than the vast one some were predicting
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Jun 9, 2017 0:06:59 GMT -5
i wish I had posted my offical prediction before, but i promise this was what i predicted on saturday, compared to the current results
Con - 309 Lab - 262 SNP - 36 LIB - 17 UKIP - 1 GRE - 1 OTH - 24
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Post by Linda Rhaldeen on Jun 9, 2017 8:31:23 GMT -5
I've been reading news articles about this and while I don't pretend to know anything about British politics and am not quite sure of the significance of everything it is all very exciting and also seems a lot more fair than our voting system here in the US.
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Post by Hermes on Jun 9, 2017 8:51:03 GMT -5
Well, most of us think it is quite unfair, but it's better than yours in at least one way: constituency boundaries are drawn up by an (at least in principle) neutral board, not by the politicians themselves, so aren't set up to support a particular party. This makes it much easier for parties other than the top two to get a foot in the door - not happening much in England at the moment (Lib Dems still doing badly, UKIP not getting the success that seemed likely at one point), but happening a lot in Scotland, where the political map looks much more diverse now than it has for a long time.
(Northern Ireland, on the other hand, is becoming less diverse, with every seat but one now held by the two extremist parties. Though they are less extreme than they used to be.)
PS. Mister M, that's impressive. I think I prefer your result to the real one. (Where do you get 24 others from? Eighteen in Northern Ireland, clearly - were you predicting six Plaid Cymru? That's the only other party you haven't listed, I think.)
PPS. My childhood home has gone Labour for the first time in its history!
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Jun 9, 2017 9:29:51 GMT -5
I never knew you had a childhood!
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Post by Hermes on Jun 9, 2017 14:18:09 GMT -5
I am liking your post because I cannot smite you.
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