How much voting power do you have?
Stolen from the newsletter
www.voterpower.org.uk/

I have .950 votes in my constituency
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:49, 99 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

.023
barely worth the effort :(
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:51, Reply)

Ouch
I felt insulted when it only gave me 0.577

EDIT: Ooh, but apparently I have 2.28x the voting power of the average voter, partly on account of my constituency being about 4,000 people smaller than the average...
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:53, Reply)

man, I love voting, though
and the all night coverage with graphs and stupid graphics is always something to look forward to. Now it's spoilt
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:54, Reply)

Oh, you like to watch the results come in?
I remember the former Ms Crow getting quite exasperated with me during the last American election - she stayed up most of the night to watch the results come in, state by state. I went to bed in full knowledge that I could just get the result off the radio the following morning, and was accused of not taking it seriously enough. I shall almost certainly repeat my feat on the 6th May.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:58, Reply)

yeah
although I did once spend a day half watching a repeat of the election results from the 1960's or something on BBC4. That was more like Monty Python without the jokes
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:00, Reply)

Kevin Phillips Bong
slightly silly
( djtrialprice, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:01, Reply)

Wow.
I knew they were struggling for interesting things to show on BBC4, but that's really going some...
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:04, Reply)

I'd try and defend it
but I really can't.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:08, Reply)

Were you perhaps dreaming of a time when your vote might have been more meaningful?

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:20, Reply)

perhaps so
right now it turns out I'm tripping out on softmints
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:22, Reply)

0.728

(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:54, Reply)

Ah but whether your candidate wins or loses
you still have to live in Milton Keynes
( djtrialprice, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:06, Reply)

0.178
Probably not gonna bother. Will watch it all though, if only to see the twunt that is Gordon Brown lose.
(TheUnthinkingMinority needs some new music to listen to., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:57, Reply)

You're not going to bother voting?
You stupid cunt.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:14, Reply)

"I Like This"
I'm not going to vote, but then I will happily sit and complain about all that is wrong with BROKUN BRITTUN.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:18, Reply)

I hate that Gordon "Clown"
but rather than actually move my fucking lazy arse to the polling station and undertake the slightest bit of effort for the democracy I live in I'm going to do nothing and whine like a pathetic bitch about politicians.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:20, Reply)

I can't go to my polling station because of all of the Hoodies who hang around on my street, who were put there by The Labour Party.
Is this what my grandad fought for in WWII?
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:22, Reply)

I remember in a sociology lesson we were taught that if it was raining or Coronation street was on, most of the working class would not turn out to vote
This was due to their inability to hold an umbrella in their clawlike hand, gnarled from years of inbreeding and a desire to see some rumpled tart from up north shatter ear drums with her fishwife voice.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:24, Reply)

I'm not voting Labour,
My constituency has been Labour for ever. I hate Labour. I hate the fact that they blatently gave us a PM that everyone hated. I hate the fact that they completely ruined the economy.

However, I also hate the Tories and wouldn't vote for them in a million years.

The Lib Dems, in my constituency, are lucky if they get 10% of the vote. UKIP, even less. BNP etc don't even bother standing here. My area is one where if Labour wanted to make sure that the leader of their party got his seat, they put him here.

So, based on history from the last 30 years (this place was Labour when Thatcher was in power), why bother?

EDIT: And I don't moan about the way the country is run. I don't have a right to, because I choose not to vote in this election.
(TheUnthinkingMinority needs some new music to listen to., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:23, Reply)

The fact that you came up with that argument against bothering to vote
means I really can't be bothered to explain what a fucking tool you are, since you're clearly too much of a tool to understand.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:25, Reply)

Yes, why bother?
Why bother exercising your right to vote? I mean, let's just be totally apathetic and let the country run itself. I'm alright Jack.

This is the reason nothing changes. Too many people think why bother, when all it would take would be a little knowledge of policy, and 20 minutes out of your day to go down to the polling station. We're very lucky that we even get a choice.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:26, Reply)

Because if everybody who had the same view as you
got off their arse and went to tick the box next to something other than Labour or Tory, it might at the very least send a message to the two main parties that it's not such a safe seat after all. You never know, one day you might even oust the bastards.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:27, Reply)

which is precisely why I'm using my 0.138th of a vote

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:30, Reply)

You consider BNP and UKIP a valid alternative?
that's interesting
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:34, Reply)

Hell no.
Definitely not BNP, racist scum.

UKIP might be a choice, solely because they are the only people left. I would normally vote Lib Dem personally, but I am against the Euro and being a member of that.
(TheUnthinkingMinority needs some new music to listen to., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:38, Reply)

We aren't in the Euro
and the Lib Dems aren't going to suggest we join it either.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:40, Reply)

given the financial trouble some of the euro countries are in at the moment
I can't imagine any of the parties are suggesting it. I haven't seen anything along those lines.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:43, Reply)

My apologies, I've misworded that slightly
I meant the EU rather than the currency itself.
(TheUnthinkingMinority needs some new music to listen to., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:43, Reply)

What's your reasoning then?

(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:44, Reply)

Laws: I am a strong believer in the UK Legal System. I am against the fact that anybody who is not happy with the ruling in the top UK courts can apply to the "European Court of Human Rights". The UK Supreme Court should be the final word. I am also against all the petty law changes that have happened over the last few years because they have had to fall into line with what the EU wants.

Subs: We pay the EU a very large sum of money to be a member. Should we leave, that money goes straight back into our economy.

The UKIP has the policy I would support the most on Europe. However, I disagree with a lot of their other policies, for example Immigration, where I would prefer (as I vomit) the Conservative policy.
(TheUnthinkingMinority needs some new music to listen to., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:02, Reply)

You silly sausage.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:45, Reply)

I think we established this from the start

(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:47, Reply)

But seriously
rather than "I HATE LABOUR and I HATE THE TORIES" can you try, just try and come up with things that you actually want out of the government and then look and see which parties are offering those things and then make a compromise on the things that party is saying which you disagree with and work out which part overall is closest to your viewpoint.

Just try, don't reply here saying "They're all cunts and crooks" just go off and read the manifesto's, listen to the election coverage on the telly and the radio and then actually do some research on your own, don't wait to be spoon fed the information, that's why we are in the situation we are currently in.

Edit - You don't just have no right to complain, I'm leaning more toward the opinion that you shouldn't have the right to utilise services set up by the government, whoever they are, if you are so fucking lazy that you can't be bothered to go and vote.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:35, Reply)

Or meet the candidates and see which one you like the best.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:36, Reply)

Also a good idea.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:41, Reply)

That's ludicrous
If the fellow pays his taxes he's welcome to use the services he's paid for, whether he exercises the right to vote or not.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:57, Reply)

I'm not arguing for it
I know it's not really defensible, but I think voting is extremely important and everyone should do it. I think engaging people more rather than using some form of punishment would be better, I was just coming up with something quickly.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:59, Reply)

Fair enough.
I must confess that aged 37 I have never deigned to vote in my life.

EDIT however I concede that I am so stupid that I don't even know how old I am. I am 36.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:05, Reply)

Oh Monty
*shakes head sadly*
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:13, Reply)

Post of the day, right there.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:24, Reply)

.496
Almost makes it worthwhile voting.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:01, Reply)

0.110
Seat 'Very Safe', which is remarkable given that my MP is a thieving, grasping little fagin.

I will still vote, though.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:01, Reply)

where you live is a bit dodgy
last time I drove through it I saw some young ruffian walking down the street with his bare, flabby ass hanging out of his trousers.
( djtrialprice, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:04, Reply)

I think you'll find it's pert and firm.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:08, Reply)

I always find it pert and firm.
Like a ripe Cantaloupe Melon
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:16, Reply)

that's because he always works out before you pop round
he's stopped doing that for me, the romance has gone
( djtrialprice, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:24, Reply)

Take him some SoCo and lemonade and a Disarrono Sour

(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:26, Reply)

You went and got yourself a girlfriend.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:26, Reply)

Not just any girlfriend
a hot girlfriend.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:28, Reply)

I was looking for the mouseover there....

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:34, Reply)

The mouseover phenomenon has got us all paranoid

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:39, Reply)

Say happy birthday to the wife for sunday.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:38, Reply)

You could tell her yourself, Chompy.
I don't mind.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:44, Reply)

I might just tell her on sunday morning
When I bring her some tea.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:45, Reply)

I have no internet at home at the moment.
So unless she comes online before 5 I wont get a chance.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:45, Reply)

Oh, OK.
I'll print out a picture of your face from facebook and paste it to my own, before bursting in on her while she's on the loo singing "Yes sir, I can boogie."

And that will be your birthday present to her.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:47, Reply)

I think this should
Become some sort of birthday tradition. Who wouldn't want their husband to do this for them?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:50, Reply)

Jenny McCririck?

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:52, Reply)

Touche sir, touche
I pity that woman.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:54, Reply)

She's a lucky lady.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:54, Reply)

AHHHH!
this has just reminded me of a LARP thing when a whole bunch of people were wearing Ann Robinson masks

AHHHH
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:54, Reply)

0.771
Bah.

EDIT: Looking at some of the above numbers, that's not so bad. I was more intrigued to learn the exact percentage of discarded votes: over 64%.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:01, Reply)

0.138
fucking marvellous
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:01, Reply)

i'm still winning for most pointless vote

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:02, Reply)

0.226
There's no such thing as a wasted vote. Even though LibDems are fairly certain to get in here I'm still going to go in and draw a magenta CDC on my ballot like I did last time.

I'm not kidding by the way.
( djtrialprice, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:02, Reply)

0.194 I think the machine is broken

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:04, Reply)

0.732
and I won't even use that.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:05, Reply)

I need to use mine
to try and get rid of our current MP. I might just knock him off his bike with my car when I next see him cycling around like a twat.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:09, Reply)

You just want to shoehorn yourself in,
don't you, 'NICK GRIFFIN'?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:09, Reply)

I don't quite understand why my constituency is labour
given all the fucking toffs who apparently live in Exeter.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:11, Reply)

Because it's somewhere in between RACISTS LIKE YOU NICK
and something else less racist.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:16, Reply)

that was shit

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:18, Reply)

The Black and White Minstrels?

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:19, Reply)

YEAH
Vipros voted for Nick and Vipros mrs voted for the minstrels and THATS HOW GORDON "CLOWN" AND NEW "LIAR"BOR WITH TONY B"LIAR" GOT INTO POWER!
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:23, Reply)

shit!
I've been rumbled

to the racist-homophobe-mobile!

*theme tunes*
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:24, Reply)

knock suck
his bike with my car
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:26, Reply)

The strikethroughs are really out in force today.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:28, Reply)

The strikethroughs my pert breasts
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:30, Reply)

Are you trying to make them (and the soco) into a meme?

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:35, Reply)

I'm working on it

(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:38, Reply)

Forced memes never work
see: ZIYou always have to have the last word, don't you?NCOMBO BREAKERG
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:41, Reply)

Well, good luck.
I'll be impressed if you do. I've never inspired a meme before.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:42, Reply)

he'd like that

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:28, Reply)

0.112
I think beetles have more voting persuasion than me.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:22, Reply)

0.157
Pah.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:23, Reply)

0.222
That's it. I'm just going to draw the houses of parliment being demolished by Godzilla on my paper.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:26, Reply)

0.908
Battersea - labour have a majority of 163. Suppose I had better vote this time.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:26, Reply)

I'm going to have a stats rant now.
This is a fucking stupid way of using statistics, it's misleading and dangerous. Everything seems to be less than 1.00 which is rubbish because some votes do actually count more than others.
Plus it is only based on last years figures, there's nothing about by elections, new candidates, peoples opinions changing because of the expenses row. I could be fired for presenting stats like this.
AAaaaand weighting it as below 1 is going to make people less likely to vote.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:30, Reply)

and the website doesn't recognise Milton Keynes postcodes which is unforgivable.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:31, Reply)

that's the real cause for your anger

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:31, Reply)

No-one recognises MK postcodes
Or they don't entertain thoughts of them anyway.

You're right though about the stats. If someone does this and gets a number of, say, 0.9, they may think it's low and not bother.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:35, Reply)

It's pretty much a site arguing for PR thought isn't it.
And as a case for PR, pointing out that in my constituency over 50% of the votes counted for nothing, is quite a good argument.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:39, Reply)

It couldn't even find my postcode
Or my constituency.

*cries*
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Sat 10 Apr 2010, 10:03, Reply)

0.049.
Mind you I do live in area that is so Labour that the people would vote for a one armed lesbian chimp if the party put one up as a candidate.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:25, Reply)

0.901
Looks like Sheffield Central is going to be yellow (if my 0.9s worth of a vote has any say in the matter).
( Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:27, Reply)

0.885
Which isn't bad. Guildford's long been a Tory stronghold with the occasional flip to Lib Dem. Labour's never won here and I can't imagine they ever will.

Edit: LD and C are pretty closely matched on their pie chart, which I imagine is were the high score comes from.
( Kroney, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:30, Reply)

Wow
0.009!
(bill, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:18, Reply)

1.108 or something
My seat's 9th of 650.
( Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 20:46, Reply)

Ultra safe Tory seat. (Currently with Anne Widdecombe sitting in it.)
"In Maidstone & The Weald, one person does not really have one vote, they have the equivalent of 0.044 votes."
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Mon 12 Apr 2010, 5:42, Reply)