Have yourself a round of appause too!

I should be about to collapse on my keyboard right about now.... I've been up 25 hours.

I feel wide awake though

Ducky's got her second wind!

ok... that looks different when I read it back

I have a feather duster Katty.....will that do?

..and you just had to point it out to everyone else too?


Ok come on Ducky...spin spin..... second wind, second wind..... nope..... can't make that something good.

Tsk..well I  suppose,but it just won't make the news....."There was protests at the election outcome.."Ducky brought a feather duster!"

I'm beginning to stagger now, and slur.......Mr S has accused me of having a secret stash of wine        Night all, and thanks for the entertaining thread.........even though I found it a bit  late in the day

Night stoory

What are you talking about?  David Cameron getting tickled into submission? It will be beamed around the world as an example of Britain's military strength!

Who needs Trident?

I just clicked on here to catch up!!!! Ducky, that made me chortle...

NIght Stoory

Oh those Tory boys....looks at QI ..

Night Stoory.

Hiya DiD

There's too much over excitement & sleep deprivation in this thread to make it of much value in terms of an Election News Update DID...  

in fact... watching Ducky atm I am beginning to see how the Monster Raving Looney Party was born

We had mock elections at school this week...... the Monster Raving Looney party won.

ROFL...

Hey all. Bed time now,(because i am seeing double and I can't type anymore)......

they seem like such a good idea...  when you're very young, or so financially secure that not a political party in existence could hurt your standard of living!

in my mind, whenever I see a monster raving looney candidate... they are always Mr Silly.... & yet I hadn't actually realised that until now...

Night DiD

Night Did

I am going to be dignified and concede defeat too.

I shall be back in the morning dressed more appropriately .....





(Did anyone see him stood next to David Cameron and shaking his hand when his vote was announced? Highlight of my night still   )

Night all

Night Ducks....

I am diggin & then bedding down too...

oh.. and the sky digibox wants to sleep again as well!!!  

typical... the dog & the husband are asleep in the lounge.. but the bloody Sky box is still gonna have a nag!

Is it safe?


Z.

My last and final take on it is, it couldn't be better. It's not good for one government to govern for too long, so we had to go back to conservative at some point.....and it couldn't have happened in a better way. 

The Tory supporters get their victory but with the edge taken off..... the Labour Supporters get their defeat but with the edge taken off. Everyone's happy...ref: Ducky


 And that's exactly how I see it too ducky. It's given all the politicians a big kick up the bum, and they needed it.

Does anyone know, if we actually had Proportional Representation, how each of the parties would have done? Is it possible to work it out?

Morning suzy & Jenny

I don't think it is possible to tell Jenny because there are several types of proportional representation.. single transferrable vote being just one.


Z.

Thanks Z. Would have been interesting, that's all.

It is pretty much impossible to work out Jenny, because a lot of people vote tactically and would have voted differently had we had pr. And then it would depend on what system of pr was used. But, just working it out simply based on the percentage vote as it stands it could have been:
Conseravtive: 234 seats
Labour: 188 seats
Lib Dems: 149 seats
Others: 78 seats

I did, Super ... will 8:30


Z.

Thanks Super.

You're welcome.....I haven't sat down with pen and paper and worked out percentages for as long as I can remember, so hope I did it right!

Hi Z, Jenny, soops,
yeah what has already been said about PR jenny. All I know is that the Cons. won the popular vote....I have a feeling that the next election will be sometime this year, and that there may be a new electoral system in place by then. It's times like this that it would help if we had a full written constitution.

Hahaha....I just got an email saying we have all been CON-DEM'd (hee hee Condemned)

Its interesting to note that proportional representation is only one form of voting reform.  Evidently the Conservatives polled the same number of votes as did Tony Blair in 1997 which led to the Labour party holding 66 more seats.  Since then boundaries have been re-drawn quite considerably which has in itself led to a form of voting reform.  Time to re-draw them back to where they were perhaps.

Worthy of a FB status that one!

Update for Ditty: I think the FB thing is sorted, for me at least. When Muf told me to check my privacy settings I changed a few things. It seems to have stopped my niece seeing the rest of the convo that took place after that time.

I will be watching FB carefully though

I'd like the voting reform to mean that I could have voted and hoped my vote would have counted for something.

As it was... I voted with my heart... but I knew it would count for nothing as the tory seat in my area was safe as houses.    I can understand why people wonder what the point is in situations like this...  cos there really wasn't much point in me voting...  I did it out of principle really.

Right then Ducks... so if the dog also cannot see anymore of that convo... then we know its for you (& croc's son) to make the changes....

You'll need to let Croc know...

Do it Ducky, there's an app called Catbook and my three cats are on there, set it up for them on Sunday.

So what's the last thing the dog sees?