Lib Dem got 3.5mil votes and have 71 seats, Sinn Fein have 210,000 and seven seats
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First past the post is an abysmal system even if in this particular case I very much approve that the racists didn’t get a matching amount of seats.
In the particularly perverse FPP implementation in the UK, any vote that didn’t go to the winner in a constituency is effectively wasted in terms of having any effect on the election outcome, yes it counts in the very limited sense of that individual constituency race but is irrelevant after that. So whilst looking at the overall popular vote for each party at the election is instructive in terms of pointing out how ridiculous the system is, it is meaningless.
Hilariously, the only time that most people are upset by this is when their preferred party gets a raw deal from it. A great problem with democracy is that most people are too uninformed to know what they are voting for and why and the real implications of the handful of slogans they heard.
In these particular July 2024 circumstances, the fascist party performed two roles – firstly its usual one of being the party of the racists and the second role, conservatives who couldn’t bring themselves to punish the tories for being dreadful for 14 years by voting for a serious party.
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