General Election

It comes down to basic addition. UKIP got more votes then the DUP and Sinn Fein and less seats because they stood in hundreds more seats. Not a lot to do with PR.

 

Fairness ? Whats that got to do with politics in this country?

 

Maths includes arithmetic, or it did when I was at school. The SNP didn't get 6% of the vote.

 

Replace SNP 56 seats with Lib Dems 8 seats and 8% of the popular vote. Pretty sure they stood in most constituencies.

 

Fewer.

 

Different question though. The answer to which would be compare the seats UKIP got to the Tories. UKIP's vote is well over a third of the Tories vote and yet the Tories over 300 seats more.

 

doesn't have a capital f given its place in my sentence though does it?

 

But nearly two and a half times more people voted for UKIP than voted for the SNP. So fairness says they should have a larger representation in Parliament. Which they would under PR, and is why neither the Tories or Labour will willingly bring it in.
A good job the English, the more balance and sensible part of the UK, rejected Miliband and his deadbeats otherwise we would have had the party whose MPs got 6% of the voters calling the shots.
As it is such was the lack of enthusiasm for Labour they still wouldn't have won if they had retained all their seats in Scotland.

 

Don't ever call anyone else a pedant, Obi. This defeat has got to you, hasn't it?

 

I know you're not stupid but think about what you've said. Do you really believe that the DUP should have no seats in the UK parliament? They got substantially less than 6% of the total UK vote. Maybe you think that Belfast North should be represented by a Scottish Celtic supporter?

It looks like UKIP took the votes of sufficient Labour supporters to keep Cameron in No 10. I'd say Farage has done his job well.

 

Maybe he can eat his stupid hat along with Paddy Ashdown

 

It was a joke. As you know I don't usually pick people up on their grammar, its a forum after all, not an English class. Yes the election has got to me. Another 5 years of misery for large sections of our country. Luckily I have no faith in Labour to be anything other than Tory lite.

 

Of course there is no possibility that UKIP took the votes of disaffected Tories.

The only solution is PR. But the last time the chance was on the table it was turned down. Of course PR was the system that let Hitler in whereas FPTP wouldn't have but that is the risk you take.

 

No he bottled it.

 

I don't get why Scotland has almost unanimously voted in SNP when they rejected independence... Doesn't add up.