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.

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Re: for the slow american in the room

[matgb]

Didn't consider it not necessarily because they didn't actually want it; they only just got the watered down basterdisation they ended up with passed. And several are saying it's distincly the first step, etc.

They've dragged US health care to the "left" of where it was, significantly. Cameron plans to drag it to the "right" significantly in a number of ways (some of which I approve of, mostly I don't).

The NHS is such a touchstone issue he can't afford to be seen to be attacknig it (but look up Dan Hannan's comments on it, or Douglas CArswells).

Politicians react to their home electorate, Tories largely want to do things that they know they can't get away with, although given the collapse of their campaign they seem to be lurching right anyway.