TSR MHoC General Election April 2011

Original post by Ham and Cheese

If TSR Labour obtains the most seats then I will be pushing for a coalition with the third biggest party (probably Centre Party or Liberals). Given that's most democratic and will provide us with enough seats for an overall majority.

A Coalition with many small parties (such as the Socialist Party) will be far too messy imo.

I think the socialists and the LDs will get a similar share actually. :smile:

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Student28061

Original post by paddy__power

I think the socialists and the LDs will get a similar share actually. :smile:

A Lib-Lab coalition would command more support from the centre than a Lab-Soc coalition, therefore it would probably be a stronger Government. :smile:

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Original post by ukebert

Hey, we used to be big :frown:

We were the official opposition once. There was a hung parliament and if one of our members hadn't voted the wrong way then I would have been Prime Minister :p:

Temporarily, we would have messed around with things fairly swiftly.

Original post by paddy__power

I think the socialists and the LDs will get a similar share actually. :smile:

It would be lovely if the Socialists came third and we could form a coalition...however let's not be too premature about this or we might jinx it :wink:

I'm sure the Lib Dem's will lose third place but I think that it will be a battle between the Centre Party and Socialists for the third spot. A tough call :tongue:

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Original post by Wilzman

A Lib-Lab coalition would command more support from the centre than a Lab-Soc coalition, therefore it would probably be a stronger Government. :smile:

Liberals probably won't come third in the election....given this is mainly a student electorate I reckon you guys will slip to fourth or fifth.

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Original post by Wilzman

A Lib-Lab coalition would command more support from the centre than a Lab-Soc coalition, therefore it would probably be a stronger Government. :smile:

Perhaps. It will come down to the results really, we will have to see. :smile:

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Original post by Ham and Cheese

Liberals probably won't come third in the election....given this is mainly a student electorate I reckon you guys will slip to fourth or fifth.

I doubt very much it will be fifth to be honest. The LDs still have plenty of support.

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Original post by paddy__power

I doubt very much it will be fifth to be honest. The LDs still have plenty of support.

From who?

The student vote within the Lib Dems has deflated. Granted there is still support for the Liberals but from other social groups.

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Original post by Ham and Cheese

From who?

The student vote within the Lib Dems has deflated. Granted there is still support for the Liberals but from other social groups.

Their vote will have reduced a lot but it was so high before that it will still gain them a reasonable amount of seats. I don't see the Libertarians, CP and certainly not UKIP overtaking them though.

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Original post by paddy__power

Their vote will have reduced a lot but it was so high before that it will still gain them a reasonable amount of seats. I don't see the Libertarians, CP and certainly not UKIP overtaking them though.

I underestimate the Centre Party; I reckon that floating voters may go for them as they will seem more 'apolitical' (I use that term loosely) because people will think they will act in the national interest rather than act on ideology.

We shall see though :biggrin:

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Original post by Ham and Cheese

I underestimate the Centre Party; I reckon that floating voters may go for them as they will seem more 'apolitical' (I use that term loosely) because people will think they will act in the national interest rather than act on ideology.

We shall see though :biggrin:

They will get seats, they always do. :smile:

Interestingly there were no independents this time.

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cambo211

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Original post by paddy__power

They will get seats, they always do. :smile:

Interestingly there were no independents this time.

Nor were there last election IIRC.

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Original post by cambo211

Nor were there last election IIRC.

Oh maybe not actually. Time has gone so fast.

For some reason the awesome gif no longer works :frown:

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TheCrackInTime

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Original post by paddy__power

Oh maybe not actually. Time has gone so fast.

For some reason the awesome gif no longer works :frown:

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Original post by aaran-j

Do you know why? =/

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TheCrackInTime

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Original post by paddy__power

Do you know why? =/

I'm not sure what you mean. :dontknow:

The awesome gif is working fine for me.

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Original post by aaran-j

I'm not sure what you mean. :dontknow:

The awesome gif is working fine for me.

I mean the Labour one I had. It stopped working for some reason. =[

Edit: I see what happened. You thought I meant emote. Then used the awesome emote. I took this as you lolling and assumed you knew why. All the time neither of us knowing what the other was on about. Lol.

(edited 13 years ago)

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BrassPioneer

voted Labour.

Good luck no-one.

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thunder_chunky

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Original post by paddy__power

They will get seats, they always do. :smile:

Interestingly there were no independents this time.

What happend to our two independents, did they just give up their seats?

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