Politically hung?

With the General Election edging ever closer, the fear of a 'Hung Parliament' is sweeping both Whitehall and the rest of the UK.

So.... What is a Hung Parliament?

A Hung Parliament is created when no party has achieved an overall majority of seats in an election. Seats are occupied by MPs representing individual constituencies across the country, if no political party has more than half of the seats in the House of Common- a hung parliament is created.

However, an here's the confusing part, even though no overall majority is achieved, the party with the most seats will be asked to try to form a Government. For example, there are 650 seats in the House of Commons (not counting 'The Speaker and his deputies') and for an overall majority to be achieved 325 or more seats have to be won by a political Party. So if the Conservatives were to win 326- they would hold the majority and form a Government.

So the party who doesn't hold an outright majority- yet still has the largest of number of seats in the Commons will be asked by Queeny to form a Government. The best chance for a Government to be formed this way is for the party (e.g, Tory) to form a coalition with a smaller party (e.g, UKIP)- this would then form a Coalition Government- similar to that of Germany. The Coalition Government would then have to reach a 'happy medium' on policies and other such aspects of Government.

However if this cannot be achieved, then Parliament has to be dissolved and another election takes place. This has only ever happened once before in the last 100 years, it occurred in 1974 when no outright majority was achieved when Labour held 301 seats compared to the Tories' 297. A minority Government was formed but lasted a short while before Parliament was dissolved and another election happen in October.

If a 'Hung', 'Coalition' or 'Minority' Government was formed after this election you can expect for their to be some rather heated debates in the Commons as parties push for their own agenda to be put forward.

Maybe the Queen is in for a busy year because of this...

Grrrrrrrr.... Vampires!!!!

Recently it seems that every film or TV shows only chance of success is if it massively involves Vampires!!!!

However, it's worth pointing out that they are not the traditional Vampires of old, these 'hybrid' vampires- who apparently ooze sex appeal for millions of prepubescent teens across the world have ruined the excitement that I used to feel towards Vampires (no sex pun intended)!

Dracula is the standard, for me, when rating the awesomeness of Vampires. He is traditional, elegant and just plain awesome- especially when Christopher Lee is the star!

But these phonies from- and I'm about to barf- 'Twilight' have completely ruined these once awesome creatures. With their 'rogue' looks they have destroyed Vampires, not only for myself but for future generations as well!

See below for visual evidence!

-not awesome!

- awesome!

'A picture is worth a thousand words, Lee's Dracula speaks volumes!!!

Is it a coincidence that God spelt backwards is Dog?

As you can tell by the title, this post isn't going to be embracing 'God' or 'religion'...

In my most humble opinion, the whole idea of religion is overrated. It's more of a ray of hope for those in tough times.

Think about it, if you had the chance to 'repent' for the wrongdoings in your life and be guaranteed a seat in this castle in the clouds, then you would jump at the opportunity. Fortunately not everybody thinks like that, otherwise I'd expect to drunkenly stumble past a long line of heathens wanting to repent.

And then we come to God...

This mythical apparently benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresence being that created the world in 7 days- I know this is bogus because it took ages to create Ikea which is a miniature world itself.

Anyhow, my view remains Atheist, and I don't really see that changing. However as religion is such a subjective topic of society, no one person is right (except me)!

I apologise for this being so short, but I have just learnt that Cheryl Tweedy is now single :-D

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."

Yes I know it's hard to believe, but I'm back! (insert evil laugh for effect!)

With the world on it's knees and politics in such a shambles- I saw the SB! signal in the sky and, like the caped crusader that I am, I knew the time was nigh! Out of the darkness I came, running to save you all.

However I do genuinely intend to publish some kind of deep and meaningful post today, so I shall return.

Until then, FEAR EVERYTHING!!!!!

This is it... for now

As many of you will have noticed, I haven't posted anything for over a month now. This is not because of laziness or idleness but purely because I have had a very personal family bereavement.

I won't be naming the relation or how we were related, out of respect both for her and the family- the last thing they want is to stumble across this and find I've posted her name on such a public place.

Since then I have been trying to carry on as usual but after the bereavement and starting college, I've realised that I cannot possibly juggle work, college, and blogging as easily as I was able to before.

It is with a very heavy heart that I have decided not to continue posting on SB! (for the time being), I want you to understand the joy I have felt at being able to post my own views without fear of a backlash, the 'team building' articles (starting with Operation: Epic Article... and going all the way to simply four blogs of very differing opinions on the same thing).#

I do have such a passion for creative writing and I am really grateful to the blogger network for allowing ordinary people to steal the limelight from 'big-time' bloggers.

I'd also like to thank the other three members of The Phenomenal four for their support over the last 10 months (although more specifically the last month) Chris, Ross and Luke thank you so much guys you have no idea how much I really appreciate it!

It's not goodbye for ever, it's goodbye for now.

Thanks and take care,

Lee :-)

Natural Selection favours the strong and the aggressive!

I feel I must take a leaf, or rather a petal, from The Confounder's book momentarily and vehemently apologise for my colossal paucity of posts lately, I honestly wish I could blame it on the fact that I was busy- however that would be a lie as I've just enjoyed my bed too much.

I feel that this is a good thing, because it has given me time to contemplate on what my passions are and, as I shall expand upon in this post, my absolute hatreds. Before I decided to go A.W.O.L I found I was either just posting randomly or posting my views on the p4's epic challenges, Surprisingly Bewildered had lost it's core values- it had become more of an extended page for the p4, there was no originality.

Admittedly this was my own fault, because I could not find the time to sit and think about good things to post, so I just posted to remain active and up to date.

I am back, but more importantly SB! is back to its good old self, back to the golden age of blogging!

I digress, the real reason I am posting today is because on my last driving lesson, myself and Blake were having our usual rantings at the problems with this country and we actually agreed on something!

We both feel that the chav race is growing at an alarming rate and something desperately needs to be done about it.

It has been concluded that the best way to cull pigeons is to set up feeding grounds for the pigeons to feed in, then when the pigeons lay their eggs, the eggs are taken and destroyed.

Using this logic then it should be easy to set up similar grounds for chavs- wkd stalls, free burberry stands are among some of my suggestions. Then when the chav girl and boys decide to become teenage parents, simply take the newborn child and give it to a more deserving family who won't call it something like Shaniqua or Sambuca.

Now before any human rights activist out there decide that this is a inhumane suggestion, just consider this....

First of all, they are chavs and therefore not actually human so human rights do not apply.

Secondly, do you really want a world full of Shaniqua's or Cookie's?

Finally, Charles Darwin's view of natural selection was hailed as a success, albeit shrouded in controversy, so surely this is just the modern world's version of natural selection...

No doubt I'll get some form of unintelligent dribble from any chavs who decide to read this, as the entire chav population collectively share 3 GCSE's in Construction they really should find a forum on the Internet where they can share their moronic gibber-jabber and leave the intelligent people in peace.

“The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.”

What a brilliant quote from a ridiculous liberal...

However to get to the point at hand...

Luke over at 'An Organised Mess' has come up with an awesome challenge for the p4 team.

Given the recent deaths in the Uk and Us' assault on Afghanistan (8 UK deaths in 24 hours!) I felt I should really brush up on my knowledge of this topic.

My original instinct is to pull the troops straight out of Afghanistan, however this seems to be an act of surrender on our parts. When I continue to delve into this subject I found out that since we've been trying to restore democracy to this desolate wasteland, there have been almost 179 British deaths alone- this doesn't even account for the scores of fatalities this has caused.

So, to my second thought if we were to pull out of Afghanistan then there are a number of negative points which I should consider.

Take for instance, we do pull out, then surely the 178 deaths are in vain. If we really are there to restore democracy, then pulling out when we encounter problems seems to undermine the reasons those brave heroes went to war for.

Now I have no doubts than many will strongly disagree with the above, but that's the whole idea of opinions, we have the right to express our views.

Now I do agree that as per, Gordon Brown is being a typical bumbling wanker in refusing to send more vehicles equipt to deal with IED's and helicopters to provide the troops with easier transport to the strongholds those murderers hold.

I'm not suggesting that when the public make the epic mistake of electing Cameron into power that it'll all be solved because as much as he has promised, we all know that any politician never keeps there promises. (I'd vote Tory if I didn't think Cameron was such a tosser- UKIP all the way!)

However, I do feel that someone needs to step up to the mark and help those heroes (and there's no denying that they are), because if it wasn't for them, I guarantee that we'd be experiencing more terrorist attacks than we are.

If the labour government are happy to pay £6 million per hour to stay in the EU, then surely they can fund the necessary adequate equipment needed to help our troops...