Agreed! I just do not understand how anyone who believes in democracy can justify the current system. Only about 190 of the new MPs polled over 50% of the votes cast and therefore considerably less than a third of those who voted will be represented by an MP of their choice. I believe that those who do not vote should not be taken into consideration – though I accept that a small proportion of these could not vote for valid reasons and probably significant numbers in ‘safe’ seats do not vote because they cannot see the point. I am sure that there would be a higher turnout if people thought that every vote counted.
By my reckoning, if the seats had been simply proportionally distributed the outcome would have been:-
Cons – 225; Lab – 181; LibDem – 144; Others – 74
as opposed to:-
Cons – 306; Lab – 258; LibDem – 57; Others – 28!
How undemocratic is that!
Incidentally, to give a breakdown of a few of the ‘Others’, we would have had 6 Green, 11 SNP, 4 Plaid, 19 UKIP, 12 BNP.
Now you and I may not like BNP or UKIP or any of the above but in a true, strong and assured Democracy can we deny that proportion of the population representation? I would suggest thet if we had a more representative and accountable parliament there would be less likelihood of the ‘protest’voting that tends to spawn these small parties. What is more, how many of you can honestly say thet there were not some aspects of all these party’s manifestos that you did not have some sympathy with?
Bring on change asap. It seems to work alsmost everywhere else in the EU and many democracies around the world. Sorry to be so wordy but I really care about this.
