First off I am sharing a free to share article, then breaking it down further.
London, UK - The First Past The Post (FPTP) voting system in the UK is the standard charter when casting an election. This election was no exception as Boris Johnson's Tory party easily attained the 326 votes needed to secure a parliamentary majority in the house of commons.
Whereas the FPTP system is simple to understand, easy to tally, and gives access to elected members to the constituents, there does lie some heavy criticism in the system.
The fact only the winners vote count towards eventually selecting a government, the votes cast for the losing candidates essentially are irrelevant in the overall election result. This voting system clearly favours some parties over others, and the demographics of the constituents play a large part in securing a seat at the Palace of Westminster, The House of Commons.
This system fundamentally dictates that a member of parliament can be elected with a moderately small share of the overall vote cast by the respective electorate.
This example has been confirmed in the recent UK general election. Official figures from dpa-inocom show that the Conservative Party won 364 seats with a 43.6% share of the vote, whilst Labour took 203 seats with 32.2% share of the ballots. The disproportional aspect becomes even more apparent when we scale down to the smaller parties.
The Liberal Democrats secured 11 seats with 11.5% of the vote, whilst the SNP took 48 seats with only 3.9% of the total popular vote. This manifestly displays the notion that demographic ideology plays a significant part in the overall election result, and raises the question of whether the system is a truly democratic means of election.
The Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland secured 8 seats in Westminster with a total vote count of 244,128. However, the Brexit Party, run by Nigel Farage, secured 642,303 votes, yet did not win a single seat in parliament, once again demonstrating a hugely inconsistent flaw in the voting system,
If calculated on voting numbers alone, in a vote per party system, parties such as the Green Party, with over 864,000 votes should have secured more than the 1 single seat they earned, as per the case with all other parties, in fact, Westminster would have looked very different under such a system.
The reality is that the UK now has a government elected by 13,941,200 people out of a registered electoral pool of 31,960,517, which essentially means, that the democratic nation of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is being run by a government voted for by a mere 43.6% of the population, which suggest the majority of the population did not vote for Boris Johnson, or his 'democratically' elected government. Full source = https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/12/13/613586/The-UK-electoral-system-has-delivered-an-unbalanced-vote-share-
The above article is only half of the truth though.
Why? Thanks for asking.
There are in the UK almost 70 million people!. This figure is not even including the countless illegal immigrants that have made it in via boat, via HGV's or even arrived with papers, and a visa. then disappeared into the crowd - never to be found!...
UK population (official) = 66,435,600 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates
So if we take this statement from the original article "The reality is that the UK now has a government elected by 13,941,200" Then divide 13,941,200 by the population of 66,435,600 you then can get the true figure of how few people voted in the con-servative leaches in the UK!.
Is this democracy? I think not. It is minority rule!.......
The political system is broken beyond repair in the UK. The above proves it via statistics.
I have no dog in this fight, I no longer live there, I am never going back there. But just wanted to highlight how broken the system is!.
Until articles like above that state "43.6% share of the vote" start telling more statistical truth with regards to population figures, nothing changes.
Can we do better? I thought so, but my mind is changing fast, as the majority simply "do not care!"..........
Have a superb weekend, shepz1 over and peace out!.
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Thank you kindly.
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I believe our system in Australia is very much the same thing. Thanks mate and hoping you and family have a great weekend.
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Yes it is as you are one of the masonic 33 countries that replicate the system of enslavement and control. Have a great weekend bro.
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Sorry to disagree, but the total you give includes children. Under any system I can imagine you preferring, I cannot imagine you wanting to count the votes of children...so why now?
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The UK just like most European countries has an aging population due to not having more than 2 children per 2 adults. https://www.thoughtco.com/united-kingdoms-ageing-population-1435456
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You can only make that argument if you can assert that the moslem invaders are not allowed to vote. If they are, they are breeding like cockroaches...so my argument stands?
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They account for 4.4% of the total population.
Officially that is, but yes, they do breed more than "us"...
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If they were each given a sexy sheep or pig, would that help slow down their birth rate?
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Had some fun.
Someone called Pakman with a rep of 75 has been making post after post ridiculing Trump by taking what he says out of context (the usual trick everyone employs). I posted a comment pointing out what he is doing...and he used his bigger vote to flag me.
That amused me since it only shows, as I told him, that he did so because he does not want others to see what I said about him.
Today I made some fun posts and I think you might like this one:
https://steemit.com/politics/@arthur.grafo/the-lost-city-of-londonistan-plus-an-interesting-comment-by-my-brother
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:-)
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https://steemit.com/murdermystery/@shepz1/free-style-murder-mystery-writing-contest-20-steem-prize
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