One last political moment

[andrewducker]

Much though I do not want a Conservative Government, I think it's pretty disgusting that the Conservatives could come in with 33% of the vote to Labour's 36%, and get 195 seats to 353 (so far).

It's a ridiculous way to run an election, and if the figures were 1.5% different then Michael Howard would be justified in accusing Labour of stealing the election.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

That sounds a lot like here, except with the conservatives winning.

[adders.livejournal.com]

Worth bearing in mind that, politically, all the parties over here are liberals in the American sense...

That said, Labour actually have a huge electoral advantage since the last round of boundary changes, which means that the Conservaties need to win a significantly large share of the vote to become government than Labour do.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I know, even the so called (pseudo) liberals running for office in the US are far from liberals by EU standards, this upsets me no end and has come close to convincing me that voting is utterly useless here.