JagoPlasma said:
*cough*
http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hcio/stateparties.cfm *cough* looks like a majority to me??
you cant count the votes/oppinions of people that didnt vote, thats like making statstics up on the spot.
a) Thats just daft - ofc you can count people that didn't vote ... because they are citizens of the country.
if I came into your place of work and asked for sugguestions for a christmas party and 20 of the 30 people in the office gave opinions and voted on it:
8 voted for a Hotel do
6 voted for a Boat trip
4 voted for a Mystery do
2 voted to put the money towards better laptops instead.
... the other 10 either weren't available, couldn't make up their minds, or were not interested.
so those 8 people who wanted Hotel do win.
than means that 12 people activily wanted something else, 10 people couldn't or wouldn't vote.
The 'majority' of people who voted didn't want a Hotel do ..... just like the majority of voters in this country didn't want a Labour party as the Government.
those figures you linked to are seats not votes. They do NOT reflect the actual votes.
Labour seats = 356 votes = 9,556,183 votes 35.2%
Conservative seats = 197 votes = 8,772,598 votes 32.3%
Lib Dem seats = 62 votes = 5,982,045 votes 22.0%
there are 644 seats so
ifseats reflected actual votes:
labour 226
cons 208
Lib 141
so some how ( due to bias in the electoral boundaries )
even excluding all those that didn't vote, it is quite clear that the majority of voters DIDN'T want a Labour Government.
..... unless you want to argue that 14.75 million votes for the other 2 main parties was less than the 9.5 Million that got the Government elected.
Note: sorry Garrett, you posted that while I was writing and posting this