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Except if you voted for anyone else but the guy who got in. So what if I have a Conservative local candidate, if I voted LibDem? I'm represented by nobody. W
by DanHulton 17y ago
Except if you voted for anyone else but the guy who got in. So what if I have a Conservative local candidate, if I voted LibDem? I'm represented by nobody.
We have this same problem in Canada, and it frustrates me to no end. (Our Greens represent 10% of the country and have 0 seats. That's 3 million Canadians with NO representation at all.)
- wlievens 17y agoUltimate solution: use both systems. Elect half the chamber directly, and half proportionally. Problem solved.
- gaius 17y agoNo, you are still represented by your MP! That is the beauty of it. But don't take my word for it: show up to a surgery, tell him or her you voted LibDem and ask them :-) An MP is a delegate from a constituency - and their legitimacy is only that they represent their constituents.
- jodrellblank 16y agoI can't make much sense of that - in what sense are they representing me if they side with their party, or on the other hand why are they a member of a party if they don't side with it, but instead take a view which includes that of the constituents who voted against them? If whoever is elected represents you, why aren't they all classed as 'independent'?
- gaius 16y agoIn the sense that you can show up to their surgery and say, I think X about Y and you should do Z. They don't have to do it, of course, but you've as much right to speak to them regardless of whether you voted for them.