The Continuing Adventures of Pax-Man

[davidn]

They're still going! Truly, David Dimbleby must be an android. 26 seats remain undeclared, but nobody can win now, so there will have to be dealing either way to form a stable government. Or you could believe the Daily Mail and just accept that this means we're all going to die (as hung parliaments are just behind mobile phones and talcum powder in things that cause cancer).

In tribute to one of the real stars of the evening, who managed to turn "What do you think of the exit polls?" into a loaded and confrontational question, and was heard to say "Look, it's 2:30am, just give me a straight answer" to struggling politicians throughout the night, here's the best thing that radio Dead Ringers ever did.

The Continuing Adventures of Pax-Man

Apart from anything else, I have to admire the Jimmy-Harting of the theme music... coming so close to the actual tune without actually being it.

Comments

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

Lib Dems have 56 seats from 6,751,786 votes.
Labour have 256 from 8,509,376.

They have a lot of reasons for wanting Electoral reform.

Lib Dem support is very large, and this is a significantly worse showing that last time for them, with two prominent party members losing significant safe seats.

[davidn]

I wonder if the Tories really could tempt the Lib Dems with a promise of proportional representation - therefore a few years of a Con-Lib government, then wildly changed proportions of MPs the next time around and ensuring much more even three-party politics thereafter. It just seems unlikely for the Tories to do that seeing how unwise it would be for their own hanging on...

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

The tories are currently trying to get them without proportional representation.

There is no question that they could be tempted, if PR is there. They need it.

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

that is. . .kind of retarded. . .

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

It does make sense. I mean, anywhere that uses FPP, if you count the vote of candidates who lose vs. candidates who win, you'd get an even bigger change.

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

That's why I voted for change to how Canadian elections are handled. Though. . .the vote did not pass.