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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Have Britain any fun politicians this year? I saw on TV some months ago Farage and Russel Brand debating. They talked if Britain was overcrowed and if they must stop immigration:) On Sunday it's election in Finland. They talk a lot of their "problem" with immigration. Usually its about perhaps 10 per year that want to stay in Finland. Why? Their language is VERY difficult. Mitä maksaa olut? Seitsemän euroa ja viisikymmentä senttiä :) |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
BBC election debate: The one photo that summed up the whole 90-minute leaders debate Reality Internet Personality |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
After a hard-fought 90 minutes with the three leaders to the left of him and Nigel Farage on the right, all Mr Miliband wanted was a hug. But all he got was a cold handshake from Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader who is the the Labour leader's biggest obstacle to entering Number 10. Sob, sob, sob. Poor Nigel Well, he asked for it. More space in Britain:) |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
I thought every country used this method... The Sainte-Laguë method is a highest quotient method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation used in many voting systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB_method#Modified_Sainte-Lagu.C3.AB_method The Sainte-Laguë method is used in Iraq, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Kosovo, and Germany (on federal level for the Bundestag, on state level for the legislatures of Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein and Rhineland-Palatinate. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Maybe UK should do like in sports. Tie Break, Penalties or Sudden Death:) |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
No, we are rather more cerebral than the average footballer. We will have a sensible solution whether it be a minority government with a Confidence & Supply arrangement, or a Coalition Government. Yes. We have a large menu to choose from. For instance the Mickey Mouse Party:) But a party have to have at least 4% of the votes to get a mandate in the parlament. That narrows it down to about 5 parties:) And we are not run by the Unions, Women's rights, The Sally Army, and a bunch of athletes. Women's rights however is a party called Feminist Initiative F! :) https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffeministisktinitiativ.se%2F&edit-text= |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
You have a bunch of Pirates though! HeHeHe. Piratpartiet. Leader Vacant Secretary-General Vacant http://www.piratpartiet.se/english/ Email: info@piratpartiet.se Telephone: 076-314 99 82 or 076-018 42 66 Snail mail: Piratpartiet, Box 307, SE-101 26 Stockholm, Sweden |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Another hung parliament here we come! The joys of a do nothing congress ..... |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Now I'm getting very confused:) Is not The Senate the house of the representatives from all different states in the US? Getting different mandates depending who many votes they get in their states. House of Lords in the US? Dont Think there are such a thing. That speaker is a speaker (moderator) is obviuos. The Congress function however.... |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
17 days to go before the "big one" & the bribery has started... Tories aim to sell Llyods shares to "small" investors ...anyone found Sid yet? |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
See the late edit. See what late edit? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
See the late edit. UK/USA equivalents |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
See the late edit. Now I'm even more confused... :) |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
See the late edit. Seemed straight forward enough to me. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
See the late edit. Please give me a link or hint:) |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Methinks you're taking the mickey :-) UK Parliament House of Lords House of Commons Speaker US Equivalent Congress The Senate (Upper House) House of Representatives (Lower House) Speaker The "operative" word here is Equivalent. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
The "operative" word here is Equivalent. I think "comparable" would be the better word. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
My postal vote arrived today and I sent it back to do my bit to make sure those racist UKIP candidates don't get in. Reality Internet Personality |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
My postal vote arrived today and I sent it back to do my bit to make sure those racist UKIP candidates don't get in. If UKIP was genuinely racist the party would have been outlawed by now, closed down, and band. But the party is not racist that's why it is still in existence and doing very well. I do suspect this SNP issue with Labour may well scare many potential UKIP voters into now voting Conservative, a shame, but very understandable under the circumstances. If they switch, then as long as they vote Conservative and keep Labour out even with LibDem support even Chris would rather see this than a Labour/SNP farcical government running loose. Labour/LibDem alliance I don't think will work out for long and could result in unnecessary damage to LibDem's credibility. Over to Chris for his views on all this.... The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
If UKIP was genuinely racist the party would have been outlawed by now, closed down, and band. But the party is not racist that's why it is still in existence and doing very well. I do suspect this SNP issue with Labour may well scare many potential UKIP voters into now voting Conservative, a shame, but very understandable under the circumstances. If they switch, then as long as they vote Conservative and keep Labour out even with LibDem support even Chris would rather see this than a Labour/SNP farcical government running loose. Labour/LibDem alliance I don't think will work out for long and could result in unnecessary damage to LibDem's credibility. Here we have Sverige Demokraterna very much like UKIP. They are genuinely racists and some even criminal... One once threatened an immegrant comedian with a stealpipe! But they have at last started a purge in the party. |
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