The UK Election Results Were the Worst in History

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dmitriid · 2022-04 · Recommendation

> creepy undemocratic bureaucracy of the EU > need for control and action on a local level Ah you mean that local control and democracy when the party with 13% of the votes gets 0.2% seats in the parliament", right? [1] [1] Great CGP Grey video on the 2015 General Election in the UK: [VIDEO]

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NeedMoreTea · 2019-04 · Recommendation

> suggests a lack of representation That's a big can of worms for HN. Suffice to say we have one of the least representative democracies and it's steadily getting worse. First past the post is no longer fit for an electorate that wants to vote increasingly for minor parties. It works where there are just two choices. Individual constituencies, especially safe seats, are often hugely unrepresentative. Finally add demographics that skew the ageing electorate ever more tory, until the baby boom finishes playing out. So that's less North-South more safe seats vs everywhere else. Yet it does often play out North-South most when seeing election results maps. Still Scotland votes overwhelmingly against Conservative, who barely exist in Scotland, yet gets English Tory government. Admittedly they won a couple back in 2017, but I can see why they inch toward independence. It's different this side of the border, but NW and NE England issues are equivalent in scale. CGP Grey summarises it well: [VIDEO] I'm trying hard to avoid a political argument. :) > spending does localise in high population areas, no? Well it does, but thanks to the ever increasing centralisation of funding - started in 1974 I think, but especially since replacement of rates with council tax, even high population areas can't compete. The funding Leeds or Manchester gets for infrastructure, services is declining compared to the SE. Even though both are booming, they are permitted to do less per capita. We've ended up

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Qwertious · 2015-07 · Recommendation

I think you'll appreciate this CGO Grey video: [VIDEO] . You're not wrong , but the system is nonetheless extremely misrepresentative.

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