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Wat_Tyler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-05 09:31 PM Original message |
These, for me, are the most depressing statistics of the Thatcher Years. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-05 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. even I, sitting here in Alaska and Oregon at the time hated her and |
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Wat_Tyler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-05 09:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. It's the fact that you can take less than 44% of the vote, |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-05 04:15 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. That has never happened in Canada. First past the post protects |
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Wat_Tyler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-05 10:25 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. 'First past the post protects Liberals' |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-05 12:39 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. We would not have had Medicare so early but all Western democracies |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-05 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
3. Sweetie - don't fret. It is always this way in a three party state. They |
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Wat_Tyler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-05 10:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. No, I understand the system - I'm a Canadian myself. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-05 04:13 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Okay - sorry. Yes there is much support for first past the post in |
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Wat_Tyler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-05 10:19 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. 'Okay - sorry. Yes there is much support for first past the post in |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-05 12:42 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Don't be paranoid about the Scot thing - everyone here has creation |
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NEOBuckeye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-05 12:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Too bad we can't do the same here in the US |
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non sociopath skin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-05 04:21 AM Response to Original message |
8. Let us be careful about that "anti-Tory" majority, however. |
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Wat_Tyler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-05 10:08 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Yeah, that's why I added the disclaimer. |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-05 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
9. Depressing indeed! |
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LSdemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-05 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. Actuallly what is more depressing are the poll figures between elections |
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D-Notice (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-05 03:50 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Deja-vu |
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Wat_Tyler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-05 06:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I think it's pretty clear that were it not for the Falklands, |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-05 04:19 AM Response to Original message |
18. Given the scenario at EU elections... |
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Wat_Tyler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-05 12:59 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I think one great strength of it is |
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