| How Can Yvette Cooper say on Radio 4 that the Oldham Result gave a clear message of Anger to the Government ? They got just over twenty per cent of the Vote. The Parties that make up the Coalition got 22%. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| We had a good candidate in Gregg Beaman but the North West branch had come to the conclusion that a Christmas campaign to try and persuade the 72 700 voters of Oldham to vote for us would be both a waste of time and a £500 donation to the local council. They were right. Every party below the Conservatives lost their deposit. The Libertarian Party made a positive decision to not take part in this farce and to concentrate on local elections. Less costly and where the individual candidate can make a difference. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The clear winner was the could not be bothered to vote party. How can any party claim to have a legitimate mandate to represent Oldham and Saddleworth. See here what one man achieved. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why is it?
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Ms Cooper makes me feel physically sick whenever I have the misfortune to catch sight of her on television.
As for Oldham and Saddleworth - the electorate should know by now that the whole Westminster system is corrupt to the core, with labour party MPs leading the dash to the trough. So, what is in their minds when they continue to vote for the labour party, despite Woolas being convicted and forced to give up his ill-won seat. Wouldn't sensible people steer well clear of such a party? Are they stupid or don't they care?
I was absolutely shocked at the BBC coverage where the anchor didn't know the difference between the OMRLP and Pirate candidates... the Pirate party despite the name are a serious party...
Impartiality at it's finest..
Minor point of correction: UKIP got slightly more than 5% of those who bothered to vote, so they kept their deposit. A good result for a minority party in this kind of election, I think.
As you rightly point out, the "government" vote was actually more than the Labour vote, it's just that the vote was split by having two "government" candidates. I wonder how this would have worked out under AV? We'd at least have a clearer idea of what the wishes of the voting population were, since FPTP almost inevitably leads to loads of tactical voting.
Correct Stuart, but not in the real terms of the overall available vote.
by your own count, the non-coalition vote was 78%, sounds like yvette cooper was right on the money to me...
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