General Election 8th June

[VNA]

 

I don't agree with most of what you say VNA but your spot on Mays days are very much numbered.

Nope we don’t often agree with each other, but on May, oh yes, agreed, her days are numbered.


It’s interesting how our political systems work.  At Westminster it’s a first past the post majority system.  In some constituencies it’s often not really worth the walk to the polling station and in reality a general election is only held in a few dozen constituencies. 



When Westminster decided that they would offer Scotland a taste of democracy, well they offered us a Scottish Parliament, but not a first past the post parliament but one based largely on proportional representation. So, what is considered a disaster at Westminster (a hung parliament) is the norm in Scotland.
The reason that we got PR, of course, was precisely so that no one party could ever hold a majority.  In other words, the SNP would never ever win a majority and could never ever win an Independence bill in the parliament – but so far, they have done it twice.

now all we have is 650 gob s**ts that will spend who knows how many months until the next election scoring points of each other rather than governing this country and getting the best deal for us all on brexit.

Maybe the gob shites are going to have to grow up and start to get to grips with consensus politics, you know the kind of politics that grownups practise across a large chunk of Europe.


All a strong working majority means, is that the party that holds that majority can go ahead and do whatever the hell they want without considering or consulting anybody else – something Tories are particularly good at.  Further, that they actually always do so on a minority of the vote suggests, to me anyway, that our first past the post system isn’t particularly democratic. 



I rather like what the English gave us in Scotland.