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Homework

So I've done some surfing and the results..
In the UK General Election of 2001.


The turnout was 59.4% of the people entitled to vote.
Of those votes cast Blair received 40.7% of the vote.

Take a thousand people entitled to vote in the UK Election.

1000 people entitled to vote
594 people voted
241 people voted for Blair
759 people didn't vote or voted for someone else.
For every one person that voted for Mr. Blair, 3.1 didn't

Blair is the Prime Minister of one of the worlds bastions of democracy, and rightly so. (Leaving Politics aside!)


Lets take the AOA membership.
Again taking the same thousand people.

1000 people entitled to vote
788 people voted
497 people voted for Nigel
503 people didn't vote or voted for someone else

Lets take the ALL the pilots in CX ( 1660, I think) because I know a lot of you will start screaming if I don't.

1000 people could have voted ( had they been in the AOA)
546 people voted
345 people voted for Nigel
654 people didn't vote or voted for someone else.

For every one person that voted for Nigel, 1.9 didn't vote or voted against. If you criticize this, well remember the two candidates standing against Nigel combined did worse!

Nigels share of the vote went up remember.


So lets just say that Nigel has more right to represent my UNION than Mr. Blair has to represent the people of the UK. Is everyone in the UK that didn't vote for Mr. Blair rushing in to renounce his or her citizenship? No the people of the UK have spoken and the system in the UK accepts that, as well as the governments of other countries.


Mr. Blair has a cabinet and an opposition to help him make the right decisions. Nigel has the same in the shape of his General Committee. The committee has widely varying views and so Nigel despite having a far larger mandate than Mr. Blair will have a harder job getting everything his own way.


I am sorry if this has bored a few of you but the usual management and anti AOA rhetoric has tried to insinuate that the election wasn't representative. Well I think I have shown that democracy isn't perfect but it works, and it works very well at the HKAOA.

So, moan away all you want, but don't tell me Nigel isn't the legitimate president of the HKAOA and that the policies don't represent the memberships wishes.

It's up to the members now.

(I'm off to bed)