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lizzie_and_ariStop having groups called things such as 'I bet I can find a million people who DON'T want David Cameron as our PM.'
If you don't want David Cameron as your PM, in a few months you'll get a piece of paper through the post. You go down to a nominated building likely to be within a few minutes walk of your house, you take an old fashioned pencil and put a cross in a box next to, say, the Liberal Democrats, or the Green Party. Even the BNP, whatever your personal conscience tells you. Just not David Cameron, if you are one of the 'million' people who don't want him as PM
Now, this process is slightly more complicated than clicking on a FB button. And there will even need to be more than a million people who don't vote for him. The inspired and key difference here, however, is that is makes a difference. If, say, as many as 15 million people wanted David Cameron to be PM, but everyone else who was sent one of those magic wee bit of paper didn't* then he wouldn't be!
Unfortunately, if one million people with the Magic Paper say they want David Cameron, and the remaining 44 million make their righteous anger known through Facebook, David Cameron will still be Prime Minister.
The Magic Paper system really is quite wonderful. Try it sometime!
Lxxx
*Based on an electoral roll number of 45 million and an average need for 35% of the vote to get in
If you don't want David Cameron as your PM, in a few months you'll get a piece of paper through the post. You go down to a nominated building likely to be within a few minutes walk of your house, you take an old fashioned pencil and put a cross in a box next to, say, the Liberal Democrats, or the Green Party. Even the BNP, whatever your personal conscience tells you. Just not David Cameron, if you are one of the 'million' people who don't want him as PM
Now, this process is slightly more complicated than clicking on a FB button. And there will even need to be more than a million people who don't vote for him. The inspired and key difference here, however, is that is makes a difference. If, say, as many as 15 million people wanted David Cameron to be PM, but everyone else who was sent one of those magic wee bit of paper didn't* then he wouldn't be!
Unfortunately, if one million people with the Magic Paper say they want David Cameron, and the remaining 44 million make their righteous anger known through Facebook, David Cameron will still be Prime Minister.
The Magic Paper system really is quite wonderful. Try it sometime!
Lxxx
*Based on an electoral roll number of 45 million and an average need for 35% of the vote to get in
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Date: 2010-01-14 07:33 pm (UTC)Applause!
I wish this was public!
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Date: 2010-01-14 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-14 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-15 01:32 pm (UTC)Now you'll have to join the damn FB group in order to post this on their wall! Irony!
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Date: 2010-01-15 01:35 pm (UTC)I'd already seen the David Cameron FB group and been annoyed by it - because it seemed obvious that you could find a million people who didn't want a particular person to win - the opinion polls would tell you that!
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Date: 2010-01-14 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-14 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-14 10:08 pm (UTC)I don't feel very strongly either way, just saying...
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Date: 2010-01-14 10:25 pm (UTC)Also the negativity thing is blah - the idea of uniting against a common enemy but with no specific goal.
I think it would be different if say the FB group was called 'Fans of the Labour Party' or whatever.
Anyway it was really just the thought in my head today.
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Date: 2010-01-14 10:33 pm (UTC)Anyway, night!
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