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Monday, April 19, 2010

Forgive me another brief political diatribe

1:33 PM / General / 1 Comment

Something rather amazing is happening in British politics. The latest YouGov poll, which measures the public's voting intention for the country's three main political parties, puts the Liberal Democrats in first place for the first time in... well, certain since they actually started calling themselves the Liberal Democrats. Labour are trailing in third place, and for some reason David Cameron and his Thatcherite cronies are actually in second place. One can only assume that their policy of appealing predominantly to people too young to remember what things were actually like under them in the 80s and early 90s has paid dividends for them...

...and yet, even if these current projections did translate into real votes come election night, the Liberal Democrats, despite getting the most actual votes, would still end up with the fewest seats in parliament while Labour, in third place, would still end up with the most. (Have a play with the BBC's election seat calculator to see just how much of a swing it would take for the Liberal Democrats to gain an overall majority. Ditto for the Conservatives - one can, I suppose, be thankful for small mercies.) If ever there was an indication that this country's politics are in need of drastic reform, this is it. The sooner we move to a saner voting system, such as proportional representation, the better.

Source: BBC News

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