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Independents win 10% of seats in General Election

In 2005 there were 4 independent wins out of 646 seats. In May 2009 when an election should be called then it is estimated that this number would rise by over 1000%.

The people of Britain are thoroughly bored of this government with all its back biting and sleaze. We want a parliament full of people who, if necessary, would work for nothing as they care passionately about the UK.

I’m not saying we want a bunch of left wing hippies making the decision but bright people are not all money motivated. Half will have a sense of good will to their fellow man and would love to engage in honest dialogue for the benefit of their community. Appreciating that any decisions are made by the whole parliament and if a decision doesn’t go their way, at least they tried and were involved in the process. They can then move on to the next topic knowing that it will get the same due consideration.

Currently, under party rule, whatever Gordon wants, Gordon gets as he as nearly half the seats but only actually got 20% of the country voting for him!

The last election was won by the lowest share of the vote ever recorded and that was with Tony Blair at the helm. If Gordon Brown had been at the front they never would have got in. Gordon, you’ve had your fun, we’ve had 14 years of your financial rule and we are now very much in quick sand. The world bank is about to change our rating so we can get even less credit but even that will not stop you, at the next photo call promising another trillion to some charity in the Far East which probably has more cash than we do.

STOP, STOP, STOP... please allow the country to breathe once again and vote for those it wishes to rule the school. You were never voted in a head boy, your pal handed you the baton as he saw the future and went off, while still great, in search of further greatness.

If you don’t stand down with your pride relatively still in tack then the people will be knocking at your door. It will not be a group of foreign nationals protesting in Parliament Square, it will be fathers, sons, daughters, mothers, grandparents and great grandparents of English men and women demanding you step down. And that would be a really crass way to go down in history. Do the decent thing Gordon and leave gracefully.

Thank you

Summary of General Election 2005
Research paper 05-33 from the House of Commons

Below is an extract from the full 153 page report which can be found here:
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2005/rp05-033.pdf

A UK General Election was held on 5 May 2005.1

• Labour won 355 of the 646 seats contested, an electoral majority of 64 over all the other parties combined. The Conservatives won 198 seats and the Liberal Democrats 62.

• Labour polled 9.6 million votes. That is equivalent to 35.2% of the total, the lowest share of the vote ever recorded for a winning party at a UK General Election and 5.5% points lower than in 2001. It is equivalent to 21.6% of the electorate, again a record low for a winning party.

• The Conservatives took 8.8 million votes, 32.4% of the total, up 0.7% points on 2001.

• The Liberal Democrats polled 6.0 million votes, 22.0% of the total, up 3.8% points on
2001.

• Compared with the results of the 2001 election, Labour lost 47 seats; the Conservatives made a net gain of 33 seats; the Liberal Democrats, a net gain of 11; and other parties, a net gain of three. These comparisons use notional 2001 results for new boundaries in Scotland.

• Plaid Cymru’s share of the vote fell relative to 2001. They won three seats, down one. The SNP share of the vote also fell, but they won six seats, a notional gain of two.

• The Democratic Unionists won nine of the 18 seats in Northern Ireland, gaining four seats. They polled more votes in Northern Ireland than any other party. Sinn Féin won five seats, up one on 2001. The SDLP won three seats, unchanged in net terms, while the Ulster Unionists were left with one seat, down five on their 2001 performance.

• Four other candidates won seats: George Galloway, for Respect in Bethnal Green & Bow;
Peter Law, an independent, in Blaenau Gwent; the Speaker, Michael Martin, in Glasgow North East; and Richard Taylor, for Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern, in Wyre Forest.

• Turnout was 61.4%, 2.0% points higher than in 2001.

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