In 2015,it took 34000 votes for each Tory MP, 40k for each Labour one, 300k for a Lib Dem, 1.25m for a Green one and nearly 4m for a UKIP one. I don't care how you define representation, the views of each voter are not equally represented.
A pure proportional system (subdivided by nation, so a separate one for Wales/Scotland/NI) would have given 240 Tories, 198 Labour, 82 Ukip, 51 Lib Dem, 31 SNP, 25 Green, 4 PC. The fact that we'd have had a Tory/UKIP coalition would have been shit, but it would have far better represented what people actually thought.
The figures for 2017 are better, but that could mean that lots of people chose not to vote for their preferred candidate.
A pure proportional system (subdivided by nation, so a separate one for Wales/Scotland/NI) would have given 240 Tories, 198 Labour, 82 Ukip, 51 Lib Dem, 31 SNP, 25 Green, 4 PC. The fact that we'd have had a Tory/UKIP coalition would have been shit, but it would have far better represented what people actually thought.
The figures for 2017 are better, but that could mean that lots of people chose not to vote for their preferred candidate.
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