From: me@privacy.net
Charles Ellson wrote in
news:5c10lad5pi78n6t9gskbou1seb8ho1f8ct@4ax.com:
> On Sun, 10 May 2015 16:19:48 -0700 (PDT), Nicholas Benjamin
> wrote:
> .
>>> >>
>>> >> And, just to clarify. The Scottish parliament has 5 parties, not
>>> >> 3. It did have 6 until Sheriden's SSP went into melt down. UKIP
>>> >> have made no headway in Scotland and have no representatives, so
>>> >> they don't count
>>> >
>>> >So we're talking about an election to the UK Parliament, which is
>>> >first-past-the-post; and you're using numbers from the elections to
>>> >the MMP Scots Parliament? My friend, you have truly mastered the
>>> >art of fuzzy logic.
>>>
>>> >
>>> >In the UK Parliamentary election, which is the one we are actually
>>> >talking about, there are three parties and a guy from Dumfries. The
>>> >three parties are Labour,. the LibDems, and the SNP. Thaty is a
>>> >three-party system.
>>> >
>>> In the _UK_ system there is also
>>> DUP
>>> Sinn Fein (who don't actually turn up to vote but presumably reserve
>>> the right to do so should it be daft not to do so on some occasion)
>>> Plaid Cymru
>>> SDLP
>>> UUP
>>> UKIP
>>> Green
>>>
>>> Had the Tories been less successful then these parties along with
>>> the SNP would have had effective control for matters where the
>>> traditional CON-LAB coalition has a policy of voting in opposition
>>> to each other.
>>
>>Dude,
>>
>>I made a very simple statement about the party system of SCOTLAND in
>>an election for the LONDON PARLIAMENT.
>>
> It is the United Kingdom Parliament although in some respects you
> might be unwittingly closer to the truth.
..and, of course, the number of parties available to voters in Scotland
to elect someone to the UK parliament remained considerably more than 3.
Ironic that 'a guy from Dumfries' is now Scottish Secretary of State and
it's his party that's now in government.
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