<37% of the total vote though and they get a majority in parliament.
Our system is hopelessly broken and getting the politicians to fix it would be like getting the turkeys to vote for Christmas.
Our system is hopelessly broken and getting the politicians to fix it would be like getting the turkeys to vote for Christmas.
Perhaps it's intellectual laziness, or perhaps it's a trait inherited from a time when a single person's voice still made a difference because communities were only a few hundred or thousand people.
Buckminster Fuller said something that I'm sure will resonate with many HNers, and that seems more likely to bring about positive change:
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, design a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
The Tories got a larger proportion of the total vote than Labour did in 2005 (35.2%), and I don't remember hearing much uproar about that.
FPTP is demonstrably unfair but as I said turkeys voting for Christmas.