Monstrous Fit of Pique

[uthacalthing]

In a Monstrous Fit of Pique, the electorate use the next GE to vote every single sitting MP out of office. In each instance, they lose to their nearest rival 

Can someone cheer me up by  giving me some detail on the result?  And the subsequent outcome. Which former Labour minister currently forlornly seeking a return to parliament finds himself called to the Palace 

[greatkingrat]

I guess you would end up with PM Douglas Alexander. Can't think of any other Labour non incumbents with any ministerial experience.

[uthacalthing]

Blair about now is regretting not taking a seat in the Lords. All over him not wanting to declare his earnings. Who in the Lords is Kingmaker?

BTW whatever constituency I end up voting in, I lost to the SNP.

[carlton43]

Sept 6, 2023 19:24:21 GMT uthacalthing said:

In a Monstrous Fit of Pique, the electorate use the next GE to vote every single sitting MP out of office. In each instance, they lose to their nearest rival 

Can someone cheer me up by  giving me some detail on the result?  And the subsequent outcome. Which former Labour minister currently forlornly seeking a return to parliament finds himself called to the Palace 

You go to the Funny Farm and the rest of us give a sigh of relief.

[greatkingrat]

The exact result (ignoring boundary changes) would be

Lab 303, Con 216, LD 91, SNP 11, DUP 6, APNI 4, Ind 4, UUP 3, Brexit 3, SF 2, Green 2, SDLP 2, Birkenhead Social Justice 1, Ashfield Independents 1, People Before Profit 1

So Douglas Alexander would need to agree a coalition with the Lib Dems, led by either Andrew George or Tessa Munt.

Luke Graham would be the only Conservative with any parliamentary experience.

[johnloony]

Variation on a theme: when I was a perennial OMRLP candidate, I often wondered what sort of people voted for me.

I had a vague theory that the 200 or 300 people who voted OMRLP would have come from a pool of perhaps 1,000 or 2,000 people who might have considered the possibility (the other 70,000 people not contemplating doing so under any circumstances), but whether they actually made the plunge would depend on their mood on the day, or whether they had specific knowledge about my individual policies and do on.

One main reason for voting OMRLP would be “I don’t like any of the main parties, and i want to make a non-specific protest rather than just staying at home”. Those voters could easily vote for any other vague minor party or candidate for the same reason.

So my alternative suggestion for this thread is: every voter (not just the 1,000 or 2,000 I mentioned) decides, in a fit of pique, to vote for whichever candidate they expect to get fewest votes (each individual voter does this, without co-ordinating with other voters, and without expecting that other voters will do the same). For example: in the Croydon North by-election in 2012, I expected that the candidate coming last would be the “nine eleven was an inside job” candidate (who got 66 votes); actually it was the “Young People’s Party” who got 63 votes.

Second level of this theory: every voter decides to vote for whoever they expect to get the fewest votes, but this time they do so in the knowledge that everybody else is also doing the same thing.

[uthacalthing]

Ah ha. Like inflation is slowing down. Followed by the rate at which inflation is rising is slowing down.

[Max]

Sept 6, 2023 21:31:07 GMT greatkingrat said:

The exact result (ignoring boundary changes) would be

Lab 303, Con 216, LD 91, SNP 11, DUP 6, APNI 4, Ind 4, UUP 3, Brexit 3, SF 2, Green 2, SDLP 2, Birkenhead Social Justice 1, Ashfield Independents 1, People Before Profit 1

So Douglas Alexander would need to agree a coalition with the Lib Dems, led by either Andrew George or Tessa Munt.

Luke Graham would be the only Conservative with any parliamentary experience.

It would be amusing in those circumstances for the Lib Dems to try to make the case for a voting system change coalition commitment for the purpose of ending safe seats. 

[islington]

Sept 6, 2023 21:48:45 GMT johnloony said:

Variation on a theme: when I was a perennial OMRLP candidate, I often wondered what sort of people voted for me.

Isn't the clue in the name?

[Pete Whitehead]

Obviously I had to do the map..




Nice to see how the Danelaw still keeps a check on Lib Dem Wessex (or is it vice versa)

Scotland actually looks almost saner than the reality

Edit: I'm guessing that greatkingrat is counting the Independent in Chorley as the third Brexit Party MP ?

[greatkingrat]

No, the 3 Brexit seats are Barnsley X2 and Blaenau Gwent. Chorley is one of the independent seats, along with Grieve, Gauke and Clare Wright.

[Pete Whitehead]

Sept 7, 2023 18:20:53 GMT greatkingrat said:

No, the 3 Brexit seats are Barnsley X2 and Blaenau Gwent. Chorley is one of the independent seats, along with Grieve, Gauke and Clare Wright.

Ah I misread my spreadsheet on that one. I should have queried it but I remember Plaid did do relatively well there one year

[greatkingrat]

It's actually quite surprising that Plaid didn't manage to come second anywhere.

[therealriga]

Sept 6, 2023 21:48:45 GMT johnloony said:

I expected that the candidate coming last would be the “nine eleven was an inside job” candidate (who got 66 votes); 

He didn't only get 66 votes. He got 1000 times that. They changed his figures to hide the truth.

[johnloony]

Sept 8, 2023 15:12:20 GMT therealriga said:

Sept 6, 2023 21:48:45 GMT johnloony said:

I expected that the candidate coming last would be the “nine eleven was an inside job” candidate (who got 66 votes); 

He didn't only get 66 votes. He got 1000 times that. They changed his figures to hide the truth.

I was at the count, so I might have noticed if "they" had done that. Unless of course you mean that "they" intercepted the ballot boxes and changed/stole 65,934 votes within the few minutes it took to take them to the counting location.