What would happen if one political party won all the seats?

[davidspooner]

Would they sit on both sides of the house of commons?

Pmqs would be boring

[anonymous-user]

the others would have to stand.

[crankedup]

Kick the Speaker out, thats one extra seat.

[thinfourth2]

Well we would have no say in what happens in the country and our leaders could completely ignore us and ride the gravy train.

[DieselGriff]

thinfourth2 said:

Well we would have no say in what happens in the country and our leaders could completely ignore us and ride the gravy train.

yup, so pretty much business as usual then.

[davidspooner]

We would have voted for them though!

[thinfourth2]

davidspooner said:

We would have voted for them though!

And your point is?

[TankRizzo]

thinfourth2 said:

davidspooner said:

We would have voted for them though!

And your point is?

You get the government you deserve.

[Globs]

DieselGriff said:

thinfourth2 said:

Well we would have no say in what happens in the country and our leaders could completely ignore us and ride the gravy train.

yup, so pretty much business as usual then.

Yes, this is exactly what I imagine happening.
In fact with the EU, there is only one party, 'The EU' so you'll be able to see how it would work by looking at how the EU works right now..

[davidspooner]

TankRizzo said:

thinfourth2 said:

davidspooner said:

We would have voted for them though!

And your point is?

You get the government you deserve.

And given the landslide... They have 'a mandate'

[F93]

if it was labour, i'd be worried and likely emigrate before it becomes the united soviet socialist republic of great britain... or USSROGB.

if it was the tories, i'd do nothing.

if it was the lib dems, then god help us they can't do anything right, and make us all become europhiles

any other party would probably be crap. Green party would tax anything vaguely related to happiness and spend taxes on crap. Of course, UKIP probably wouldn't be so bad, but probably be a bit crap after a while. BNP would be scary

[StevieBee]

davidspooner said:

Would they sit on both sides of the house of commons?

Pmqs would be boring

The House of Commons is simply a place where the process of government is debated. In theory with a single party there would be no need for this other than to pass bills via a vote and to conform to official processes.

So, in direct answer to your question, yes.

[Engineer1]

The rest of the world would wonder how one party got 90 odd percent of the vote, as the chances of it happening in anything other than a fixed election is vanishingly small.

[scenario8]

Engineer1 said:

The rest of the world would wonder how one party got 90 odd percent of the vote, as the chances of it happening in anything other than a fixed election is vanishingly small.

Well, mathematically it could be done with 1% of the vote. You only need a simple majority (ie one more vote than any other individual candidate) in each constituency to "take" the seat. Repeat that trick 649 further times and Robert's your mother's brother.

The chances remain, as you quite rightly state, vanishingly small.

[Globs]

StevieBee said:

In theory with a single party there would be no need for this other than to pass bills via a vote and to conform to official processes.

And if they did this, and failed to confirm to their own rules (bailout, accounting) it would still be Ok, only we'd call them the EU.

[98elise]

thinfourth2 said:

Well we would have no say in what happens in the country and our leaders could completely ignore us and ride the gravy train.

They only need a majority for that. Its effectively a block vote for what ever the PM wants.