[SpamCop-Social] Re: Well, they have chosen the new prime minister

[Sylvesterthekat]

"Turan Fettahoglu" <turan.fe at web.de> wrote in message
news:d5lood$lpe$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> > But having lived through two elections in 12 months, I would have to say
> > that I much prefer the British ones.  They are way less annoying and
> > intrusive.
>
> I like the British snap elections with a three-week campaign. Here in
> Germany an election campaign may well last for six months.
>
> The trouble is: with the British "first past the post" system one party
may
> have the majority of the votes and the other has the majority of seats.

Nothing new there then!

I thought it was interesting to see the map of the country which shows it
being more blue than red yet in fact Labour won.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/vote_2005/default.stm