As someone who works with numbers, I’ve known for ages the electoral system in the UK is a very poor model.
The distribution of votes across the parties correlates very badly with the distribution of seats they get in return.
It’s possible, and not uncommon, for a party’s overall vote share to go down and yet its parliamentary influence to go up, or vice versa.
After years of adversarial flip-flopping, the system’s thrown up a result which nobody seems to be satisfied with, regardless of their party affiliation. (Except maybe the Greens :-) )
There are electoral reform demonstrations happening tomorrow, in London and all across the country:
http://www.takebackparliament.com/
If you can spare a few hours to go along, hopefully we can get a good turnout and make the case for real change while it’s still very topical — not the waffly kind of change that politicians promise every time and never deliver.
I’ll be in Trafalgar Square from 2pm.
Andrew.
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