The all new Up for the Count thread

[Barman]

Exchange rates, interest rates.....

I knew I should have bought me Euros this week while the value was sort of 'rocketing' favourably.
Plumeting today.

The Euro is going down the toilet Growler... 

[GROWLER]

Exchange rates, interest rates.....

I knew I should have bought me Euros this week while the value was sort of 'rocketing' favourably.
Plumeting today.

The Euro is going down the toilet Growler...  

So's the pound.
It's absdolutely plummeting aginst the euro this morning. ?1.18 down to ?1.14 in just 4 hours, and still falling.
2.25 % loss.
Absolutely goosed against the $ too. (never used that $ key before)

[Barman]

Nick Clegg does the honourable thing... 

[Nick]

What's he done?!

[Barman]

What's he done?!

Not topped himself... 

Says that the biggest party (Tories) should form government...

Gorgon must be gutted! 

[Snoopy]

Nick Clegg does the honourable thing... 

Don't hold your breath ..... Gordon will cling onto the levers of power until some bugger shoots him. Cleggy may have said Cameron gets first chance to offer a deal .... he hasn't said he'll accept it and if Cameron says "Fvck off, I want to go it alone in a minority government" Cleggy will be round to Number 10 before you can say knife.

[Barman]

A Lib/Lab pact would be the least worst result IMHO... They can go down the toilet together then....

[The Moan Ranger]

Red wine hangover, not good 

[GROWLER]

You should have all voted for me.
Free pies chips beer ciggies and petrol/diesel for ever.

It's the simple things in life that attract sheeples.

[Snoopy]

A Lib/Lab pact would be the least worst result IMHO... They can go down the toilet together then....

If they do combine we will be looking at PR voting in future ~ because they both know that if they put that in place we will never have a Conservative Government again.
Lord Rumba of Rio and Peter Hain have been promoting that idea since 10 o'clock last night, claiming that both they and Gordon have long been supporters of such a change. Kinnock had the nerve to claim he has "Always" supported and campaigned for such a change to the system when he was asked about it earlier this morning. When the interviewer pointed out that he hadn't supported it when he looked like winning a "first past the post election" he came out with all sorts of bulls hit.

[Barman]

A Lib/Lab pact would be the least worst result IMHO... They can go down the toilet together then....

If they do combine we will be looking at PR voting in future ~ because they both know that if they put that in place we will never have a Conservative Government again.
Lord Rumba of Rio and Peter Hain have been promoting that idea since 10 o'clock last night, claiming that both they and Gordon have long been supporters of such a change. Kinnock had the nerve to claim he has "Always" supported and campaigned for such a change to the system when he was asked about it earlier this morning. When the interviewer pointed out that he hadn't supported it when he looked like winning a "first past the post election" he came out with all sorts of bulls hit.

PR would prolly be the price to pay for a Lib/Lab pact...

However, after five years (if that) of austerity measures, who is going to vote for either of them...?

[Snoopy]

As I already said (somewhere) I would be happy with a system to redistributed the votes cast for all the no-hopers .... perhaps we should be given a choice of two on the paper.

[Barman]

iDave to make speech at 2:30.... 

[Miss Demeanour]

Red wine hangover, not good 

Joan Collins still looking attractive this morning then 

[Snoopy]

What we DON'T need is the Welsh system used to elect our AMs (Assembly Members) ... it is a nightmare.

The assembly is made up of 60 members. Forty are elected using the first-past-the-post system in constituencies identical to Wales's Westminster seats.

A further 20 are elected from five electoral regions - such as "north Wales", "south Wales central", etc. - with four drawn from each region.

These additional assembly members are chosen from party lists, with numbers decided according to a complicated PR system designed to reward parties that get a large spread of votes which is not concentrated enough to win constituencies outright.

Voters therefore have two votes, which can be cast for different parties, but need not be.

In the last election, for example, Labour won only in constituencies and secured no top-up seats, whereas the Tories only won in one constituency (Monmouth).

Their strength in the assembly is almost entirely dependent on the 10 AMs that the PR system gave them.

A total of 31 seats are needed to form a majority in the assembly, although since an assembly member from the second-biggest party becomes the speaker, and usually does not vote, 30 seats are enough to form a working majority.

Labour won 30 seats in 2003, but no party is likely to do so this time.

Unlike Westminster, elections to the Welsh assembly are fixed for every four years - although under the provisions of the Government of Wales Act 2006, which comes into force after May, an extraordinary election can be called if two-thirds of the assembly vote for it, or if the assembly cannot decide on a first minister.