On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:28:11 +0100, Bruce
wrote:

As we saw in 2005, it is possible to have a government elected with a
strong parliamentary majority by only a quarter of the electorate, or
36% of those who voted.

Not the first time. I believe the last Tory government polled fewer
votes than Labour. The system is wrong, it nearly always delivers
absolute power to a minority and sometimes not even to the largest
minority, and then we act surprised when they prove incapable of
co-operating with anybody else or acknowledging any policy but their
own as having any merit.

I find it sad and ironic that people seem to think that the way to
"fix" a government which has become arrogant and corrupt is to vote
instead for the party they kicked out a dozen years earlier for being
arrogant and corrupt. Have the Tories ever apologised for trying to
send innocent men to prison in order to cover up for a minister lying
to parliament? I don't recall hearing such an apology.

In theory our MPs represent us. A transferrable vote system would
deliver the MP who most closely represented the opinions of their
constituency. That would be a good start, it would hopefully do away
with safe seats and the allegiance to party before constituency.

Guy
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