Who's voting ?

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Tue May 12, 15 9:18 am

He wants election reform, and why not? Our current system is crap, our system goes by constituencies not by votes. UKIP came third in total of votes with 4 million votes but only secured 1 seat.
The SNP only got 1.4 million votes but secured 56 seats and that's because you have for example a town of 400 people who all voted Conservative and a town of 4000 people where 1000 voted UKIP but the town of 400 people win the seat even though it got less than half the amount of votes.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Tue May 12, 15 9:21 am

They will never change the voting system - the British people rejected PR a couple of years ago; and it suits the big parties quite nicely, thank you.......

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Tue May 12, 15 9:25 am

Exactly, suits the big parties.

Mick · Post by **Mick** » Tue May 12, 15 11:31 am

Peter Hitchens gives a rather compelling argument for FPTP over AV in this argument, worth a read.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... 5102,d.d24