#starkenstone

[jaybarou]

starkenstone ha respondido a tu publicación “Oh. A guy on tv said that the moon affects to women. Wtf?”

Yeah it does! I went crazy one night cause I was drunk and couldn't find the moon!

OMG, best answer ever.

Did you find the moon?

[queerzaza]

Ahh. Thank you. (:

you are very welcome darling! XD

[queerzaza]

I have a MASSIVE crush on a guy that lives in my halls. He is great and we get along really well, the only problem is he has a girlfriend, who also lives in our halls. I am insanely jealous of her but I don't want to lose her as a friend. I got over this crush for a while but now it is back, and I don't know what to do. I've never actually felt this way about a guy before and I feel really sad when I see them together. How do I get over him?

you're in uni-aren't there are tons of guys around? so stop focusing on this one- that's a command darling! you've got school and friends, and activities and a whole big exciting world. he's just some guy that you'll  probs hardly remember in a few years!

so focus on all the good and wonderful things in your life, he's not available, so give the available guys a chance to catch your eye. something that you're not doing while you're obsessing over Mr. taken. Uni is THE best time to find out what you like and don't like. this is THE time to be selfish. to go ahead and figure you out! so i hope you take all that energy that you are wasting on him and flip in inwards-best of luck!!!!

[jaybarou]

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I have a beauty mark on my forehead, it looks like a bump, but I love avoiding it when I put on make up.

I have four scars on my right hand, and I have used them through the years to get my right and left correct.

I used to tell everyone the truth when they asked about the scars; that I was doing the dishes whe I was 4 and I hurt myself with a cup. Then I got fed up and now I say that I got them in a fight.

The last film I've seen is "The Grand Hotel Budapest"

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[clawtooth]

Actually, that post you made about Scottish votes affecting the outcome of the Westminster election isn't true. We only have 9% the electorate so our votes don't change anything in terms of the Westminster government. I hope thins makes sense but if it doesn't get back to me and I shall clarify myself.

Umm ... okay first off how did you get ahold of my tumblr? I don't think I know you, you don't follow me, and I didn't tag it with anything other than my personal tags?

Second of all I specifically ran the statistics on this and yeah it did make a difference.

in 2010 - before the most recent reform - Scotland had 59 out of 650 seats in Westminster which is 9% as you say. These votes, in the 2010 election comprised of:

Labour: 41

Liberal Democrats: 11

SNP: 6

Conservative: 1

So, we see here that 15.8% of Labour seats won in that election and 19.2% of Lib Dem seats won in that election were from Scotland, which considering we are "only" 9% of the electorate just goes to show the power Scotland has to swing the vote. Now to further clarify let me do some further delving into the statistics, all of which can be found on Wikipedia.

in 2010, for my non-British followers, any one party - under the (in my opinion flawed) 'First Past the Post' system of election - any one political party required 326 seats in the house in order to form a majority government. However, in 2010 for the first time in a long time no one party had a leading majority. The biggest parties were:

Conservative: 306

Labour: 258

Liberal Democrats: 57

With the other smaller parties making up the remaining 29 seats.

What happened was that the Conservative party "joined forces" with the Liberal Democrats (a move many consider the Lib Dems as 'selling out') in order to create a joint coalition government. This, in many people's view, has assuaged the Conservative party's austerity focused policies a little bit and allowed for more left wing policies brought by the Lib Dems to be at least voted on - although few have passed etc.

My point in that earlier post which you bring up is that I tested out this system in a world where Scotland did not vote in Westminster. This, takes some seats out of the equation, but for now we'll use numbers.

Conservative: 305

Labour: 217

Liberal Democrats: 46

Smaller Parties 23 

In this system there are a total of 591 seats however obviously if Scotland were to go independent there would likely be another shift around in the structure of constituencies.

I don't know how those boundaries would shift, but let's assume the same proportion of the populations of each area still vote the same way, and thus the proportion of seats each party would win would be the same. While this is not the most elegant way of doing things, it gives us a rough look into the way the political landscape of the new UK might look (forgive slight error introduced through rounding):

2010 Real Results:

Conservative: 47.1%

Labour: 39.7%

Lib Dem: 8.8%

Other Parties: 4.5% 

2010 Results Sans Scotland:

Conservative: 51.6%

Labour: 36.7%

Lib Dem: 7.8%

Other Parties: 3.9% 

Now, this might not look like much of a change to you at first glance - as you say, Scotland only makes up 9% of the electorate, right? However, the most crucial thing about this Data is that the Conservatives have breached that precious threshold of 50% of the vote - they would hold over 296 seats in the new parliament - a clearer majority than 2010 actually was, if still not much more than that. Therefore, the coalition would not have happened in the New UK in this example.

I realise that this situation isn't a perfect example ... but I'm saying that 9% of the electorate, while the number looks small, is actually a large number when it comes to politics, especially when a large majority of that group votes a certain way, like Scotland did for Labour in 2010.

So yeah ... I ran the statistics on this before I posted it ... on my own private blog under nothing but my own tags ... under a readmore ...

So ... please don't try and dismiss me for a post I made on my personal blog under a readmore? I don't particularly care about your personal opinion on the matter because I have mine and you have yours ... but yeah ...