(October 7, 2012 at 9:02 pm)Hughsie Wrote: You could quite conceivably end up with a situation where Labour get 49% of the vote. Lib Dems 26% and Conservatives 25%. And the Lib Dems get elected. That seems absurd to me.
So what we have is over the years a natural conservative majority, and then occasionally middle voters moving to the left and a labour government that throws away its integrity to hold the middle votes, does nothing leftist other than ban fox hunting which does not work, maladministrates things and we return to a right of centre politics which does not have to be responsive to voters as it has a natural fixed majority. Over Time this set up is also Absurd, but also has the effect of disenfranchising voters as their views are not reflected in government.
