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You can entertain yourself by calculating how the seats would have gone if there had been PR instead of FPTP. However, had there been PR people would probably have voted differently as in FPTP people try to avoid wasting their vote and if need be vote tactically.

Why should you Canadians have any allegiance to an old woman who lives across a wide ocean?

If Hillary had won we would be in the middle of ww3 right now.

Federal states usually have a second chamber. Some unitary states do as well but in their cases I truly don't understand the purpose of a second chamber. The most outrageous example being the British House of Lords. If that institution didn't exist nobody today would come up with an idea to establish it.

What is the smallest geographic size of a riding in the Canadian election? I guess a couple of blocks in Toronto. Meanwhile in the north a riding consists of an area the size of France or even bigger. Canada seems to be very divided. The West looks like a one-party state as the conservatives polled 60-70% when as in the East they are not strong at all. Then, of course, there is Quebec.

Is it true that Trudeau's party lost the popular vote but remained the largest in terms of seats? He was therefore saved only because he broke jos election-promise to bring on PR.

How many constituencies, or ridings as you seem to call them in Canada, are ones which are dead certain? The problem with FPTP is that every vote doesnt count equally valuable everywhere. The marginal ridings decidwe the outcome of the election.

The shitty rehashed deal was rejected by parliament today, which was probably the plan all along. Now Johnson relies on that the EU won't grant an extension. That means Britain is out on October 31st. An extension is still more likely. That would make Johnson seem very weak with his earlier dead in a ditch-statements. However, if or when Brexit happens it would only mean that remainers would become rejoiners and the leavers, well, outstayers or something similar but the whole circus would go on.

It is always leftists who are in favour of compulsory voting. They think that the people who don't vote would vote for the left if they voted. I don't think that is a right analysis though. There are always people who simple don't care either way. Besides, if people were forced to vote there would be a lot of smudged ballot-papers. Would people have to prove somehow that they cast a vote which counts?

I'm not British so it is a bit hard for me to say how important an ordinary Brit in the British mainland views Northern-Ireland but may I take a guess?Most people don't give a flying fuck about Northern-Ireland and therefore that this Brexit-process is stalling because of Northern-Ireland is all the more annoying.

He is internationally well-known. Knowing who is the PM of Canada is not part of general knowledge but everyone knows Justin Trudeau. Most people outside Canada have never heard of the alternatives to JT.

There will a lot of angry people on Nov 1. Who those people Still remains to be seen but it is inevitable that in three weeks time there will be some hassle.

I have been wondering how on earth are politicians these days such a mediocre bunch. Perhaps the brightest minds choose to go to the business-life rather than politics.

Why do people always assume that an eco-fascist government which takes drastic measures to combat climate change is going to be some green socialist open borders government? After all, immigration from low carbon footprint countries into high ones is definitely not a good policy. A future eco-fascist government could be one to shoot everyone who attempts to enter the country without permission.

If I were British I would have voted for Brexit. After all, Britain is a major country and they will always be all right. The EU needs them as much as the other way round. Britain has half the rest of the World on its side in form of the Commonwealth. The Brits are going to be all right. If there a was a referendum here in Finland on seceding from the EU I don't think I would vote for it. We are not Britain.

The EU itself shouldn't have granted this current extension. Britain should have been kicked out in the end of March as origannally planned.

The British Parliament is so theatrical.

Johnson either has very high self-confidence or he knows something we don't as he plays this do or die-game. If Britain is still in the EU on Nov 1st his credibility is zero. The court's ruling is correct. Totally unthinkable that the PM would have power to stop Parliament from meeting. Nov1st will be a very restless day in Britain depending on whether Brexit has happened/been delayed/been cancelled.

Remoaners dont really want another referendum. They just want to ignore the first one saying that it was only advisory, which is true, no denying that. However, if there was a second referendum and leave won agaiin, perhaps even with a bigger margin, do you think then the remoaners would accept defeat and give up? In your dreams!

This reminds me of the episode how Prince Harry wore a nazi-uniform in some fancy-dress party. The outrage was huge. Later he married a mixed-race woman. I don't think Harry is a real nazi.

Have any actual minorities expressed outrage at this terrible terrible scandal or is it, as usually, white middle-class leftists and champagne-socialists virtue signalling? If Trudeau wasn't such a hypocrite I'd almost feel sorry for him about this witch-hunt.

The stances are clear except for one party; the LibDems want to cancel Brexit altogether, no new referendum. The Labour-party wants a new referendum between remain and a shitty deal. The deal is so shitty that even many hard-core Brexiteers would prefer remain. The new party, the Farage-party, sorry, I meant the Brexit-party wants a hard Brexit but they call it a clean break Brexit. Only the Tories' stance is not clear. They are hopelessly divided between a Brexiteer leader and ardent remoaners.

Is anyone of you old enough to remember the time when Pierre Trudeau was PM? Probably considered as good old times since Justin has got where he is now because of his name, not his merits.

Do you think there are people who were going to vote for the Liberals but this incident made them change their minds? Surely no one can be that fickle. Nice timing though to discover that photo.

If there is one country for which Brexit could be a disaster it is Ireland. Namely, Britain will always manage, in or out of the EU, but Ireland is totally dependant on Britain and if there is a no deal Brexit it will be a big blow for Ireland.