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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 12:06:01 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 12:14:52 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/7/2010 12:15:42 PM   
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Post work tithe.

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/7/2010 12:16:15 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/7/2010 12:37:30 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 1:11:46 PM   
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It doesn't hurt anymore but I'm hearing less through that ear now


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 1:32:50 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 1:41:00 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 2:42:46 PM   
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Time to go home after work tithe...


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LOG! - 5/7/2010 3:53:15 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 3:58:34 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 4:02:57 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 4:04:58 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 4:09:00 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 4:41:34 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 4:54:58 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/7/2010 4:57:17 PM   
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I have a question for the Threadsters whose nations are taking part in the World Cup (or have taken part), is there as much media attention on your nations as there seems to be on the England team? Despite the fact that as a nation we are just a quarter final quality team at best there always seems to be an expectation of great things at every tournament.

Does the Danish/French/US/Croatian/Australian/Swedish press get so overexcited about the chances of their team? Admitidly the French national team are probably better than England in recent years, and the US team probably doesn't get much coverage over there.


Not much coverage of the US team over here, Martin. I'm seeing more commercials for the TV coverage on ESPN than anything else.


Soccer? Who cares about soccer?

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LOG! - 5/7/2010 4:57:55 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 5:02:07 PM   
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Question for our British thread brothers...

Where can I find good explanation of how UK general election works (i.e. how percentage of general vote is not connected with actual parliament seat winning)?


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 6:55:40 PM   
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Hi all,

Question for our British thread brothers...

Where can I find good explanation of how UK general election works (i.e. how percentage of general vote is not connected with actual parliament seat winning)?


Leo "Apollo11"

Warspite1

Apollo11, it's a really very simple "first past the post" system. There are 650 constituencies in total across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The size of each consituency is not always equal in terms of area or inhabitants, and I have no idea how the boundary commission decides what the boundaries of each constituancy are. But its a real pain because it heavily favours one main party over the other.

Anyway, each eligible voter in a constituency votes for one candidate. The candidate with the most votes becomes the Member of Parliament for that consituency and takes his/her seat in the House of Commons.

The leader of the party with the most seats is asked by the Queen to form a Government.

The main problem with this is that you can get some major anomolies e.g. the Conservative party have just failed to get an outright majority (over all other parties) and yet got a higher percentage of the votes than the last Labour Government managed in 2005 (and that had a majority of 60 I think it was).

It's great TV though - and not for the first time I stayed up through the night to watch the drama unfold; even though I had to go to work today.......

The third main party - the Liberal Democrats have been banging on about proportional representation for years now and it looks like the hung parliament that has just arisen, has got all three parties recognising there is a need for electoral reform. What that means in practice we will have to see.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 7:23:34 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Question for our British thread brothers...

Where can I find good explanation of how UK general election works (i.e. how percentage of general vote is not connected with actual parliament seat winning)?
Warspite1

Apollo11, it's a really very simple "first past the post" system. There are 650 constituencies in total across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The size of each consituency is not always equal in terms of area or inhabitants, and I have no idea how the boundary commission decides what the boundaries of each constituancy are. But its a real pain because it heavily favours one main party over the other.

Anyway, each eligible voter in a constituency votes for one candidate. The candidate with the most votes becomes the Member of Parliament for that consituency and takes his/her seat in the House of Commons.

The leader of the party with the most seats is asked by the Queen to form a Government.

The main problem with this is that you can get some major anomolies e.g. the Conservative party have just failed to get an outright majority (over all other parties) and yet got a higher percentage of the votes than the last Labour Government managed in 2005 (and that had a majority of 60 I think it was).

It's great TV though - and not for the first time I stayed up through the night to watch the drama unfold; even though I had to go to work today.......

The third main party - the Liberal Democrats have been banging on about proportional representation for years now and it looks like the hung parliament that has just arisen, has got all three parties recognising there is a need for electoral reform. What that means in practice we will have to see.


Thanks (BTW the thing that interested me the most was how the boundaries were set in the first place)!

Although, in order not to offend the "THE THREAD!!!" policy of no politics here I hoped just for a link...


Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 7:28:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sounds like the major reason that we have a census every ten years in the US.  The 435 seats of our version of the House of Commons, the US House of Representatives, are re-divided to represent close to an equal number of citizens, with the exception that each state, regardless of it's population, is granted a minimum of 1 seat.  Those seats are divided and spread among the 50 states, which are each redivided every 10 years into Congressional Districts who elect one member.  Some states gain seats and some lose seats, depending on relative population shifts every decade. 

From what I gather, something similar is what the British Liberal Democrat Party want to implement.


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 7:29:50 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 7:47:15 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 8:00:57 PM   
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Don't worry, Leo.  Discussing how a particular government system works, or is supposed to work by the book, is much safer than discussing what we think the government should do.  

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 8:13:35 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 9:12:31 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 10:43:08 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/7/2010 11:18:29 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/8/2010 2:21:07 AM   
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