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? Regards, Andrew
