Andrew Dyke wrote:
> Andrew Dyke wrote:
>
>> Julian Tether wrote:
>>
>>
>>> (1) I wasn't deceived and did not vote for Bliar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> On Behalf Of Ian Mac
>> I suspect that less than 100,000 people did ;-)
>> and I for one don't want a presidential system.
>> cheers Ian Mac - suffering from boredom so reading off topic threads.
>>
>> Actually, it was rather more than that. Even UKIP got more than 100K. Be
>> bored some more :-)
>>
>>
>>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1997#Votes_sum
>
>> mary
>>
>>
>
> Ian Mac
> I beg to differ, his, Tony Blair that is, best ever was only just over
> 33K votes
> there are only about 77K people in each constituency, and less than that
> in *Sedgefield, the biggest in the country is the IOW with 110K *
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedgefield_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29
> And when I last voted I could only vote for my prospective
> representatives, not one I liked down the road.
> The only people with more than one vote tend to be students and they
> only get it for local elections, I'm not sure how they go on for the
> regional parliament seats, but national elections its one person one
> vote in there registered parliamentary constituency.
> --
> cheers Ian Mac - vote for the person not the party.
>
> Yes indeed, I was thinking more national than personal, the bigger picture,
> and I think in the 1997 election the general view was that people throughout
> the UK voted for the person ie TB and that is how they got such a massive
> majority and the fact there wq an anti
> I am intrigued by your ' The only people with more than one vote tend to be
> students and they only get it for local elections' Explain please.
>
> Still bored?
>
Not now ;-) not really then either, to be honest
I have found this link
http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/register_to_vote/students.aspx
which I hope explains the special case which students have. Whether the
2009 act alters this is not clear.
It also I think answers the question about the assemblies
i.e. you only get one vote, but you can vote in both the Scottish and
Welsh ones at the same time, if you are domicile in both areas.
--
cheers Ian Mac
thinking that 29 yrs ago he would have been getting excited about going
to Droitwich for the winter working party, and sleeping in a tin
tabernacle, and enjoying the lights in the town, I've got some slides of
them somewhere. May be next year we can at last come by boat :-))
