I'll copy and paste this from my LJ...but I'll edit the sweary bit!
Results of "Big 3":
Labour: 353 seats, 36% of the vote.
Conservatives: 196 seats, 33% of the vote. (The party I support and voted for)
Liberal Democrats: 60 seats, 22% of the vote.
Beforehand, all the media was blaring out (No pun intended) that Labour would dominate and that the Conservatives would stand no chance. Look at the percentages. It's a 3% difference. I believed Labour would win so I'm not annoyed about that, I'm annoyed about the 3% difference. It's so close. But due to media propaganda, we're stuck with Blair for 5 more years. Thank you very much, BBC, but I'll come onto that in a minute.
I find it funny that 3% of the country have 156 MPs to represent them. Damn you First Past the Post system. Also HURRAY that the Lib Dems didn't do as well as our dear propaganda spouting friends said they would.
Why the Conservatives didn't get that magic 3% more which would have swung many seats (Including my own constituency):
- BBC are so pro-Labour and pro-Lib Dem it makes me want to burn down television centre. No, I'm not exaggerating. I did my English Language coursework on how the BBC treat different parties, with types of question, amount of time they spoke/interviewer spoke, etc, and there's a clear anti-Conservative bias.
- The Liberal Democrats and a lot of their voters. Most people who voted for the Lib Dems voted for them because they were neither Conservative or Labour (polls say so). They don't even know their policies. It is idiotic to vote for something if you don't know the policies, in my personal opinion. If you want Labour out, vote Conservative because it's the lesser of two evils or something. But when the Lib Dems don't even campaign on their policies, and instead going around campaigning that they're the REAL ALTERNATIVE then it's no wonder...
- The media treating the Lib Dems like they are as big as the Conservatives or Labour. They're not. There is no "Big 3." It's a "Big 2." Less than one in four people want the Lib Dems. That says it all. And Charles Kennedy claiming that the Lib Dems would replace the Conservatives as the second party? Yeah, OK Charles, whatever you say. :rolleyes2
- Predictions that Labour would win by a mile. Yeah, 3% is a lot! This discouraged many people from voting considering the election to be a foregone conclusion, when clearly their votes could have swung it.
Now that Labour and Blair are back in power, here's what we can look forward to:
- Nothing.
But I'm not annoyed because they won, like I said. I genuinely believed the media when they said the Conservatives wouldn't win. But 3%? We've been played like fools. Utter fools.
Anyway, I'll leave you with the final thought that nearly all of my Politics class (ie, people who actually know about politics) voted Conservative.
It's 5. He can choose to hold an election at any time in the next 5 years. He chose now because a major problem might happen for Labour in the next year, causing them to lose.Originally Posted by TisWas
