Published on 12, July, 2020
Well that was a thumping majority, but I think a wide but shallow one. Reform did less well that exit polls predicted, for which I'm glad, but they have quite a high vote share. THe LibDems had a brilliant night.
A nice collection of Tory scalps for new MP's, Rees Mogg and Truss amoung them.
I stayed up until 3am and then had to go to bed, so I didn't see the big scalps taken, I'm tired today though.
It dosen't feel all unicorns and rainbow, frollicking fauns, and splashing mermaids, but I'm glad we've got some change, but it's a poisoned chalice for Starmer and gang, this country has so many problems in need of fixing. But I hope we have a stable government and not all this continual chopping and changing of PM and other ministers, I think part of the problems have been caused by so many reshuffles, ministers don't have time to get on top of their brief before they're moved on. That means any policy objectives they had are discarded by the successor, so nothing gets done and the rot sets deeper.
I think this screenshot of a chart on the BBC website is a good indicator of how skewed results are without proportional representation:
I saw there were just 2% more of the vote share for labour this election but this translated to double the number of seats (to 64% of all the available seats).
That is pretty absurd.
I'm starting to think that in spite of all the failings of PR it may be the least bad option for the future.
Not that any of the major parties would allow it to be voted in as it would destroy their chance to have a supermajority in power for just 34% of voters (not even 34% of the population).
that's a different meaning and why I asked for the clarification above
I'll rephrase then - Labour grew their vote from 32% to 34% of those who voted in the election.
By a jump of 2% they went from a minority party to having a supermajority.
Labour got 34% of the vote in this election according to your link.Voter turnout was 60% of those qualified to vote (registered voters are 48.8 million according to https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration/bulletins/electoralstatisticsforuk/december2021 )The UK population is 68 million according tohttps://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/united-kingdom-population Therefore there were 34% x 60% x 48.8m labour voters = 10 million.10 million is 14.7% of the UK population
So Labour now have a supermajority based on less than 15% of the population.
Iain said:The article says: Labour's vote share is up by less than two points from 32% to 34%,
The article says:
Labour's vote share is up by less than two points from 32% to 34%,
Yes, that's a different meaning and why I asked for the clarification above.
If you mean more than the Tories, it's 10% per the chart.
Iain said:just 2% more of the vote share for labour
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nglegege1o