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19 Feb 2005, 22:49
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Twisted
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Operation Black Vote
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19 Feb 2005, 22:52
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I am.
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Re: Operation Black Vote
its comforting to watch black people be racists.
it reinforces the truth of equality
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19 Feb 2005, 23:19
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Has Soup On His Head
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Re: Operation Black Vote
You know what reading that story reminds me of?
"Lies , Damned Lies , and Statistics"
Sums it up quite nicely.
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20 Feb 2005, 02:11
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Insanity Prawn Boy!
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Re: Operation Black Vote
they're not called "ethnic minorities" for nothing you know
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20 Feb 2005, 02:14
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Klaatu barada nikto
Join Date: Mar 2000
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Re: Operation Black Vote
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Originally Posted by BBC
Ethnic minorities make up 8% of the United Kingdom population but only 2% of MPs - 13 out of 659.
If ethnic minorities were represented in the House of Commons in proportion to their numbers in the population, there would be 42 ethnic minority MPs.
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Heh. 8% of 659 is 52 (actually, 53 if you round it to the nearest integer).
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20 Feb 2005, 02:22
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Insanity Prawn Boy!
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Re: Operation Black Vote
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Originally Posted by Tactitus
Heh. 8% of 659 is 52 (actually, 53 if you round it to the nearest integer).
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indeed, unfortunatly the UK population is not a mere 659. We may be just a small island to you yanks but we're not that small
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20 Feb 2005, 06:00
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Klaatu barada nikto
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Re: Operation Black Vote
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Originally Posted by Demon Dave
indeed, unfortunatly the UK population is not a mere 659. We may be just a small island to you yanks but we're not that small
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I don't recall any assertions made about the total population of the UK.
659 is the number of MPs.
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20 Feb 2005, 15:32
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Insanity Prawn Boy!
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Re: Operation Black Vote
yes, but if you re-read the article then you will see that it says "ethnic minorites make up 8% of the total UK population and just 2% of MPs (2% of 659 being approx 13)
EDIT: actually, now that i re-read you original post, i see that you are saying that the total number of ethnic MPs should be 52, and not 42 as the BBC claim. how silly of me
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20 Feb 2005, 17:13
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: Operation Black Vote
They let black people vote nowadays?
Well i never
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20 Feb 2005, 17:19
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Freedom Fanatic
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Doing evil deeds in the name of freedom
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Re: Operation Black Vote
Gosh I bet 'enthnic minorities' just love all being lumped in together
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to enable the Black community to claim its place in British democracy
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You have the right to vote and the right to stand as a candidate.....the rest is up to you.
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20 Feb 2005, 22:46
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the Sacred Pervert
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Re: Operation Black Vote
its interesting how asians and the chinese are separated on the ethnic mix list
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20 Feb 2005, 23:59
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Clerk
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Re: Operation Black Vote
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Originally Posted by demiGOD
its interesting how asians and the chinese are separated on the ethnic mix list
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In Britain "Asian" generally refers to people from the Indian subcontinent. It sometimes applies to a wider group, but people would generally say "Orientals" if they meant Chinese, Thai, etc.
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21 Feb 2005, 00:40
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Clerk
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Re: Operation Black Vote
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Originally Posted by Tactitus
Heh. 8% of 659 is 52 (actually, 53 if you round it to the nearest integer).
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I'm not even really sure why they raised that point anyway. Thanks to the wonderful nature of our constituency elections, it's totally irrelevent what the overall (i.e. national) proportion of ethnic minorities represent.
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21 Feb 2005, 01:05
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the Sacred Pervert
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Re: Operation Black Vote
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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
In Britain "Asian" generally refers to people from the Indian subcontinent. It sometimes applies to a wider group, but people would generally say "Orientals" if they meant Chinese, Thai, etc.
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thats really funny you said that - because if youre not asian-american (which is what i am), most americans will not know that the middle-eastern and arabic nations (e.g. iraq, india, israel, kuwait, iran, etc) are a part of asia - an average american will get you into a 30-min argument in disagreement of this - which is pretty dumb i think
-now with posting this will open new doors of creative bashing of the americans (again), but oh well..
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21 Feb 2005, 01:37
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Banned
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Re: Operation Black Vote
In my spare time I get dressed up in bed linen and chase black people.
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21 Feb 2005, 01:56
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the Sacred Pervert
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Re: Operation Black Vote
i do have blacks in my family tree - they're still hanging
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21 Feb 2005, 02:17
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Lost the Fury... :(
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Re: Operation Black Vote
my ancestors beat up on their scotish peons before they were force to flee to america...
or so they say.
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21 Feb 2005, 07:34
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I am.
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Re: Operation Black Vote
seems unlikely.
most of the families who 'beat up' the scotish stayed in England or Scotland in their nice big castles.
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21 Feb 2005, 14:00
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Shai Halud
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Re: Operation Black Vote
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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
I'm not even really sure why they raised that point anyway. Thanks to the wonderful nature of our constituency elections, it's totally irrelevent what the overall (i.e. national) proportion of ethnic minorities represent.
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Presumably they thought strawman was the best way to get their point across.
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