The morning after the day before

[mraltariel]

I think that in what is one of the most interesting and complex elections for a generation,  the BBC have severely let themselves (and therefore us) down with their coverage. Frivolous, inaccurate, overblown, inconsistent and uncoordinated (website and TV calling some seats in different directions!) Andrew Neil wasted on a D-list celebrity barge.

Comments

[mrazalais]

Turnip Taliban == unreconstructed Tories living out towards Peterborough & other places in the east where there's nothing but turnips for miles. Generally opposed to the Cameroonites, where they see as an arriviste group which has executed a take-over of the levers of power within the Tory party.bv

[vilakins]

Our system works pretty well. We get two votes, one for a local candidate, one for a party. The winning candidates get in, then the rest of the seats are made up from party "list" candidates to match the proportions of the party votes. I think Germany has a more complex form where you can order the list candidates of your chosen party so they're in effect voted for.

It works well; we'd had a case before that where Labour got more than 50% of the votes, but National (our conservatives) got more seats. You're more likely to get coalition governments this way though as other parties get more seats. Still, it means that parties people like (Greens etc) get a say in government.