Although some minority political parties may get some influence in government, they

Comment on Proportional Representation : The Single Transferable Vote by Neil Mc.

Although some minority political parties may get some influence in government, they will not get total control. Our present system allows a political party which can get as little as 27% of the vote to have total control over the majority 73% who rejected it. Under First Past The Post, our present system, when politicians talk about “majorities” they are actually talking about totally fake majorities – as an example my current MP polled some 30% of the vote, yet he speaks of a “majority” (the majority actually rejected him). This distortion of the popular vote suits politicians, but I would suggest that it is as fraudulent as all the bogus expense claims which MPs of ALL parties have been claiming. I would suggest that our current system has bred complacency, corruption and dishonesty on a grand scale – it disenfranchises millions of people and deprives us of a real democracy It urgently needs to be changed.