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No they didn’t. More people voted against the conservatives than voted for them, but due to the first past the post system they got a massive majority in Parli
by funnybeam 4y ago
No they didn’t.
More people voted against the conservatives than voted for them, but due to the first past the post system they got a massive majority in Parliament and can do whatever they want.
- plantain 4y agoBut they voted for first past the post!! In my opinion that was the defining moment that cemented the UK's decline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternativ...
- rjsw 4y agoI voted against an Alternative Vote, I do support Proportional Representation.
- pjc50 4y agoWell then we got neither. That was a once in a generation vote, holding out for a better option was a very bad idea.
- rsynnott 4y agoWatching from next door (we've had STV PR in Ireland since independence), I never got this. PR _wasn't on offer_. Unless you actually preferred first past the post to AV (PR > FPTP > AV seems like a weird preference ranking, but I suppose it might be _someone's_), why on earth didn't you vote for AV?
- LatteLazy 4y agoWelcome to England where people prefer Bojo to Kier because Kier isn't left wing enough...
- rjsw 4y agoI live in a safe seat but feel that if I lived elsewhere then I could get the same effect as AV by just voting tactically.
- rsynnott 4y agoYou might very well _feel_ that, but unless everyone votes tactically (which would require coordination), it's not really true.