Democracy

[Kaloki]

Does anyone else feel this was a farce?

People who turned up to vote in time couldn't.
Ballot papers weren't there.
And the amount of votes for a party don't match the seats held.

Yes.

Particularly on the last point. If you compare the number of seats each party has, compared with the number of votes, there is a ridiculous imbalance.

For example - the Democratic Unionist Party in NI only got 170,000 votes, yet has 8 seats (and a strong chance of influencing a hung parliament). Whereas UKIP got nearly 900,000 and has no seats.

Lib Dems got 6.5 million votes, Labour got 8.3 million votes, yet Labour has 5 times as many seats as Lib Dems.

I find the existing system bizarre. It favours parties whose support is concentrated into small areas. Parties whose support is spread out over the country will lose out and not be represented. Madness.

agree the system is a farce.
However, find it very strange that there weren't enough ballot papers etc.

No Democracy that is why their will be electoral reform, I feel it's what the people want. As you say UKIP with 900,000 votes but not one MP.

On the other hand, I've just worked out that a system where the proportion of seats reflected the proportion of votes would mean that the BNP would have 12 seats and thus significant power in parliament.

Urgh.

(though I suppose at least then people might see what they are really like).