superiorrain

Still confirms all the other polls. I have a bet with a friend of £10 that labour will win and that on a 2/1 odds, i'll be quids in till they start taxing the shit out of me.

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stevie667

The country is divided up into constituencys (sp), in each of which you have a member of parliment. Everyone in a constituency (sp again damnit) votes for who they want to have as their member of parliment, who then goes on the voice the peoples wants and needs in parliment.

The party who gets the most members of parliment wins the election, and goes on to become government. What this means is that in theory, the party with the most votes overall can still lose the election because they didn't have as many seats.

People usually vote for the party they want, but some vote for the person, depends what you like to do.

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Aborted

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about here... this 'misery' of which you speak has clearly eluded me entirely.

John Henry

feh! New Label in for another term. Ho Hum.

1) In my case, I decide by the party, because I find it enough of a headache to educate myself on the parties, let alone the individual candidates. I think this is the most common tactic, but there was, for example, an independent in my area yesterday who would've been depending on people voting for candidates, so there must be some out there who do it.

2) Again, typically I think people vote for a candidate as a comment on that party's leader. Or at least if you asked anyone how they thought other people voted that's the answer you'd get... But it does get more complicated than that. A colleague of mine voted for the Tory candidate yesterday, even though he doesn't want Michael Howard in power. He refused to vote for the Liberal Democrat candidate because of his previous track record in local government. I, on the other hand, voted for the Greens and I still don't even know who their leader is. The reason was that I wanted to register a protest vote against the main parties, but I didn't want to vote for UKIP or an independent I knew nothing about. Also I live in a hippie-ish town, so the Greens actually stood a fairly good chance.

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