Why I'm in favour of Proportional Representation

[andrewducker]

According to the BBC, the current polls show Lib Dems on 33%, Conservatives on 32%, Labour on 26%.
Which would give a seat allocation of Conservatives: 246, Labour 241, Lib Dems: 134.
Or, in a more easily digestible table format:

Party	Percentage	Seats
Lib Dems	33%	134
Conservatives	32%	246
Labour	26%	241

It should be pretty fucking obvious that this is an electoral system that is fucked in the head.

Comments

Re: for the slow american in the room

[andrewducker]

Kinda, probably not, and almost certainly not :->

Your conservatives are so right wing that there's no real equivalent over here. Your democrats are more like our conservatives, our Labour party _used_ to be actively socialist, bot nowadays are fiscally central, and quite authoritarian. The lib-dems are actively liberal.

Re: for the slow american in the room

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> Your conservatives are so right wing that there's no real equivalent over here.

Yup.

Though... UKIP? :p

Re: for the slow american in the room

[andrewducker]

Or BNP.

Re: for the slow american in the room

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Wait, the British Nationalist Party is not only very much like our GOP, they actually use some of the same media consultants as our GOP.