Wednesday 5 May 2010

End games

We are nearly into voting day.

Oddly enough tomorrow I am off to uni for a day interviewing students so I will have to squeeze my vote in around being on manouvers.

But anyway, it's off isn't it.

From the polls we get a notion that the vast majority of people in the UK support policies which are socially liberal.

Yet the current electoral system is likely to deliver a government whose very core is neo conservative.

Not that it has stopped Cameron rushing to Ireland to cuddle up to the Cristian Homophobes of the heirs of Ian Paisley just in case he needs them.

So on the current likely vote all three parties enjoy support that hovers around the 30 percent mark

That will translate into about 250 seats each for labour and tory, under 100 for the liberals.

How democratic is that?

This system is innately skewed towards the tories, no wonder they have no plans for change....

R

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