Think you are underestimating the effect FPTP would have in preventing UKIP from winning seats. That percentage of the vote is not enough to overcome that. Running those figures through electoral calculus, UKIP are still 50 seats off a majority, though comfortably the largest party.
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Think you are underestimating the effect FPTP would have in preventing UKIP from winning seats. That percentage of the vote is not enough to overcome that. Running those figures through electoral calculus, UKIP are still 50 seats off a majority, though comfortably the largest party.
TBH he needed a landslide Remain vote to stay on - the knives were out for him regardless of the result if it was by a close or average margin.
Would he though? He was going to go before the end of the Parliament anyway, and as I recall Johnson had already publically backed him to go on. He would be far better advised to take a cabinet post and bide his time over the next few years. A big hitter like Johnson would never face Cameron in a leadership contest, there would be a stalking horse first. If Remain won, especially by a narrow margin, then a challenge to Cameron was more than likely, but he would probably fend that off relatively easily.
Had the Tories began to plummet in the polls, especially to UKIP, however, then a second challenge might be more successful, and Johnson would then step in after Cameron was defeated. I doubt whether all of that could happen before mid 2017 though, so Cameron would probably lead them into an early election in this scenario.
I'm having a little trouble with an election wikibox I'm making at the moment. I copied and pasted a NZ election wikibox in to my sandbox, and replaced all the country names (since the wikibox has nothing to do with NZ), party names, party colours, leader names and leader portraits. I also added the seats each party won in parliament. But when I click to preview the wikibox (which I do after every minor change I do on a wikibox) I noticed it wasn't saying the leader's name, leader's parliamentary seat, number of seats the party gained or anything except the party name and the number of votes. Any help?
Bhangbhangduc
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Hopefully somewhat cheerier than satanic necrophiliac bestiality and mathematics.
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M03 Plasma Rifle
The M03 Plasma rifle, officially designated Directed Energy Weapon, 15 Millisol, M03, was the main service rifle of the United States Armed Forces for fifty years. It replaced the older M-13 gradually throughout the 2610s after the Multipurpose Joint Energy Weapon Contest that sought to design a simple, lightweight, hard-wearing weapon that serve in an anti-infantry, anti-tank, and anti-air capacity. The weapon continues to be used by the US Armed Forces in a limited capacity, as well as being the primary service rifle of 256,891 other polities and being used in a limited capacity by some three million more.
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Bhangbhangduc
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Something else. These Stars Are Right ais "On Hold" so to speak while I settle into Un, I can just do this in my free time.
I disagree with Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Viirginia, and New Hampshire.
Well, these are just as cool as TSAR. Do you have a name for this universe yet?
The leadership election candidate's pictures look like they were arrested and this was their mughsot
Bhangbhangduc
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Thanks. I've been calling it The Ninth Cygnus-Orion War, since that's the focus of the setting.
shiftygiant
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A surge? Where could they have had this surge? Why would Cameron have resigned and May succeeded him in this scenario (when Johnson was more likely to challenge and beat him in such a scenario)? Why would May, assuming she still somehow became Prime Minister, listen to Farage or really care if he had a surge in the polls? Did Carswell put forward the motion? I mean, I'm not brushed up on my procedure, but I'm fairly certain that Carswell can't do one.
The third place guy looks like Polish Ed Miliband.
There were a few people talking about something close to what the Canucks call a 'leadership review' if (or rather, when) Remain won, but he wouldn't have been outright toppled. It would have been a Blair post-Iraq process of gradually increasing political anaemia and his eventual early departure.
Anyway that's one point, but the box in question has, shall we say, multiple and very serious issues. Trying to be polite. UKIP would have profited from a Remain vote, but the extent that the box assumes is just silly.
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