~14m people voted tory in 2019 out of a population of ~70m.
Given the prevalence of ‘safe seats’, there are likely many people living in one of those seats who know that their vote won’t count and don’t cast their ballot
The only time (for a generation) this was ever going to happen in the UK was when we had the Lib-Con parliament. But the LDs failed to push for anything at all and Nick Clegg instead preferred to kill his party then go and be a censor for Facebook. 🤷♂️
Interesting to note that in 1983 under STP the Liberals would have been the shadow government pushing Labour into third
Nestling within the “other” score (15-20 from the ’70s onward) are going to be MPs from the National Front and BNP. I wonder if that might have dented the popularity of the system?
If we get a change of government and the Tories are out of power for a while, I have absolutely no faith that the new government will make the essential political reforms we need. They’ll potter around preserving the status quo and we’ll have the Tories back in fairly soon-ish.
I personally believe that the German system, MMP (sometimes other names are used) is best.
Half the seats are constituency based, and the other half are chosen by proportional representation (with extra ‘overhang’ seats used to ensure each party receives an proportionate amount of seats to their votes). There’s also a 5% threshold
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~14m people voted tory in 2019 out of a population of ~70m.
Given the prevalence of ‘safe seats’, there are likely many people living in one of those seats who know that their vote won’t count and don’t cast their ballot
The only time (for a generation) this was ever going to happen in the UK was when we had the Lib-Con parliament. But the LDs failed to push for anything at all and Nick Clegg instead preferred to kill his party then go and be a censor for Facebook. 🤷♂️
Interesting to note that in 1983 under STP the Liberals would have been the shadow government pushing Labour into third
Nestling within the “other” score (15-20 from the ’70s onward) are going to be MPs from the National Front and BNP. I wonder if that might have dented the popularity of the system?
If we get a change of government and the Tories are out of power for a while, I have absolutely no faith that the new government will make the essential political reforms we need. They’ll potter around preserving the status quo and we’ll have the Tories back in fairly soon-ish.
I personally believe that the German system, MMP (sometimes other names are used) is best.
Half the seats are constituency based, and the other half are chosen by proportional representation (with extra ‘overhang’ seats used to ensure each party receives an proportionate amount of seats to their votes). There’s also a 5% threshold
Ew, imagine the parliamentary deadlock