Proportional Representation.
Most of the student population around me are whinging about having to live under the Tories for 4 or so years. They're also whinging about electoral reform, mostly advocating some kind of PR.
According to the pure numbers, straight PR would make the BNP the 4th largest party in the country, bigger than the SNP and Plaid Cmyru with a 2% share of the vote. So we'd end up with 12 racists in parliament.
I know that this system would never come in as is, but still. Its important to understand what you're advocating.
Oh, and the Tories would have roughly 234 MPs. We'd still be waiting for them all to make their minds up. I should probably point this out to the whingers.
Oh, and as an aside, if we had any kind of PR, it would involve parties nominating their MPs to some extent, so all the people who voted to get rid of MPs like Jacqui Smith or Shahid Malik becaues they felt that they weren't serving the public interest but their own, would have to watch some of those MPs walking back into Parliament, despite repulsing enough of their own party supporters that they lost in landslides.
According to the pure numbers, straight PR would make the BNP the 4th largest party in the country, bigger than the SNP and Plaid Cmyru with a 2% share of the vote. So we'd end up with 12 racists in parliament.
I know that this system would never come in as is, but still. Its important to understand what you're advocating.
Oh, and the Tories would have roughly 234 MPs. We'd still be waiting for them all to make their minds up. I should probably point this out to the whingers.
Oh, and as an aside, if we had any kind of PR, it would involve parties nominating their MPs to some extent, so all the people who voted to get rid of MPs like Jacqui Smith or Shahid Malik becaues they felt that they weren't serving the public interest but their own, would have to watch some of those MPs walking back into Parliament, despite repulsing enough of their own party supporters that they lost in landslides.