A wonderfully graphic image of how our voting system is, as it were – no, as it is – disproportinate: This winner takes all is also, it occurs to me, very destructive of political engagement. Why would you choose to vote in a contest in which, once over, you are completely ignored? As an example… Read more
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Electoral Reform
‘Our democracy’ is highly undemocratic
These statistics are from the Electoral Reform Society for the recent general election. I wonder if all those youthful Labour campaigners would like to know that, for all their effort, they got a third less MPs than they would have done if they were Conservatives – and half as many as the SNP. But pity… Read more