scottyunfamous:So this is happening in London. The people are protesting the Conservative party bein
scottyunfamous:So this is happening in London. The people are protesting the Conservative party being back in power. Apparently BBC News isn’t reporting it and Twitter removed the #ToriesOutNow hashtag from the trending sectionI suspect some people are pissed b/c even though they voted, their votes didn’t really count. Green Party received over a 1.1 million votes, but only won 1 seat. The Scottish National Party received over 1.4 million votes and got 56 seats. The Conservative Party received 11.3 million votes and ended up with 331 seats.Wiki: “The disparity between the numbers of votes and the number of seats obtained by the smaller parties gave rise to increased calls for replacement of the ’first-past-the-post’ voting system with a more proportional system. For example, UKIP had 3.9 million votes per seat, whereas SNP had just 26,000 votes per seat, about 150 times greater representation for each vote cast. Noting that UKIP’s 13% share of the overall votes cast had resulted in the election of just one MP, Nigel Farage argued that the UK’s voting system needed reforming, saying, “Personally, I think the first-past-the-post system is bankrupt”.[136] Re-elected Green Party MP Caroline Lucas agreed, saying her party had “made history” and had had the “most successful election campaign ever, with almost a million people voting Green”. She added: “The political system in this country is broken […] It’s ever clearer tonight that the time for electoral reform is long overdue, and it’s only proportional representation that will deliver a Parliament that is truly legitimate and better reflects the people it is meant to represent."” -- source link
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