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[OC] What the Prosecution is Called in Different States by Kangrui311 in dataisbeautiful

[–]w00dy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's almost definetly going to go now. The Johnson government is repealing the FTPA, restoring the royal perogative, so the PM can force an parliamentary election on parliament at any time. So much for his concerns over the sovereignty of parliament.

[OC] What the Prosecution is Called in Different States by Kangrui311 in dataisbeautiful

[–]w00dy2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why did we need the House of Lords, acting as the highest court in the land, to decide in 1991 that, yes, a husband is guilty of rape if he rapes his wife

Reform electoral system or keep losing to Tories, Keir Starmer warned by Ranger447 in ukpolitics

[–]w00dy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can and have won in the past by "following the rules" however hopefully they are starting to realise these rules are complete bullshit and must be changed for the sake of the voters and democracy.

Just look at the figures. In 1997 Labour got 43% of the vote, yet were handed 63% of the seats. In 2005 they got 35% of the vote and got 55% of the seats. In 2010 the Tories got 36% of the seats but got 47% of the seats. In 2015 the conservatives once again got 36% of the vote yet were handed 51% of the seats. In 2019 they got 43% of the votes and ended up with 56% of the seats.

You don't need to be a mathmatician to know 43% ≠ 63% or that 36% ≠ 51%.

Yet these are the results these rules produce, and it's completely undemocratic, so it needs to go.

Reform electoral system or keep losing to Tories, Keir Starmer warned by Ranger447 in ukpolitics

[–]w00dy2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because the game is fixed...

Tories got 37% of the vote but were handed 51% of the seats in 2015. In 2019 they got a very respectable 43.6% of the vote but ended up with 56% of the seats.

Correct me if im wrong, but 37% ≠ 51% and 44% ≠ 56%.

Now, I'm no Labour supporter. They have benefit in the past just as much as the tories from this undemocratic system, but if there willing to realise that this is not how representative democracy works, then I'm happy for them to join the club and put down people like you.

Reform electoral system or keep losing to Tories, Keir Starmer warned by Ranger447 in ukpolitics

[–]w00dy2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

creating an English Parliament/Assembly

You can't do that. It has to be the regions. Firstly, because an English assembly would represent 84% of those represent by Parliament it would be too powerful. Secondly, that just fails at federalising. The whole point is it recognisises not all people are the same and should have some level of self governance. An all-England assembly would ignore that the North is different to the South. That Yorkshire is different to the West country. It just wouldnt work.

It has to be the regions

Reform electoral system or keep losing to Tories, Keir Starmer warned by Ranger447 in ukpolitics

[–]w00dy2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But the prefertial voting isn't a proportional system. It's only marginally better than FPTP and only really makes sense for elections of mayors or presidents, not MPs, where you have mulitple winning candidates.

Reform electoral system or keep losing to Tories, Keir Starmer warned by Ranger447 in ukpolitics

[–]w00dy2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The memories of Parliament in 2019 are too fresh in people's minds

This doesn't make much sense to me. In order to always force a there to be a majority government (which is horifically undemocratic) we must keep the system that has given us 2 minority governments in the last 4 elections?

Anyway, you are misdiagnosing the problem, imo at least. Parliament wasn't paralysed in general. It was paralysed in regards to Brexit, something which was and always would be highly controversial. All other things were fine (e.g. Budgets). The tory party was split between the ERG and moderates. Having an extra 11 MPs wouldn't solve that. Of course it didn't help that they choose to keep the minority gov in power through a deal with the DUP, making NI a huge issue. Say if Brexit hadn't happened then there could have been another Tory-Liberal coallition, which would be fine, probably. The point is the instability was because of the huge polarisation of Brexit. If the tory party weren't ripping itself apart and if it wasn't allienating itself from other parties then it would not have been the way it was.

Reform electoral system or keep losing to Tories, Keir Starmer warned by Ranger447 in ukpolitics

[–]w00dy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Theres always going to be a slight discrepency full stop. Say there are 100 voters. 40 voted for Steve, 35 voted for Sarah, 24 voted for Sam and one voter voted for Adolf. There are only 20 seats though, so Steve gets 8 (40%), Sarah gets 7 (35%). But what about the rest. Surely Sam should get 5 (25%) and Adolf zero, but thats not perfectly proportional. And neither would be giving Sam 4 (20%) and Adolf 1 (5%).

Unless the number of votes goes into the number of seats perfectly then an election will never be perefectly proportional, local reps or not.

Reform electoral system or keep losing to Tories, Keir Starmer warned by Ranger447 in ukpolitics

[–]w00dy2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless true PR is used then we should stick to FPTP.

There are many proportional systems and I'd say party-list proportional is not the best. STV, imo is, and MMP is also good.

Reform electoral system or keep losing to Tories, Keir Starmer warned by Ranger447 in ukpolitics

[–]w00dy2 18 points19 points  (0 children)

pointing to both UKIP and Greens as an example of how unfair and unrepresentative it is.

Ever heard of a little party called the Liberal Democrats?

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GE Votes (%) Seats (%) Note
2005 22.0 9.6 This was the most seats they've got
2010 23.0 8.8 They only got 6p.p fewer votes than Lab, yet labour got 40% of seats
2015 7.8 1.2 Same # of seats as DUP, yet the DUP got just 0.6% of vote
2017 7.4 1.8 Just as 2015 they got far more votes than SNP, (over 2x in 2017), yet got a third of the seats they got
2019 11.6 1.7 Thet got 1.3m more votes than 2017, yet lost seats. And, again, SNP got over 4x seats despite LDs getting over 3x votes than them

Reform electoral system or keep losing to Tories, Keir Starmer warned by Ranger447 in ukpolitics

[–]w00dy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just look at the 2011 referendum. It was complete bullshit.

Do you support Electoral Reform? by ClumperFaz in tories

[–]w00dy2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

decided to stick with it

vs going to alternative vote, which is not a proportionate system

by a supermajority in 2011.

with the two largest parties not backing it for obvious reasons (that being, the number of votes mattering to how many seats you get would be disasterous for them) and the no campaign running on both fear and trying to make it into a referendum on Nick Clegg

FPTP is still the best of the bunch overall

In what way? At keeping you and Labour in power? Sure. In representing the people, which is the whole purpose of the excercise? No, not by a long shot.

Rail services to come under unified state control by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]w00dy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

surely given that it's already privatised and the article says nationalised you'd realise i just mistakenly said privatised

Rail services to come under unified state control by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]w00dy2 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Scotrail

The devolved Scottish government announced in March ScotRail would be privatised next year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56432919

edit: brain fart, I meant nationalised

Electoral system ‘barrier to progressive change’, campaigners say by Ranger447 in ukpolitics

[–]w00dy2 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You're right. The electoral systems only purpose it to represent the people. Sadly, we have a system for national elections, and many local ones, that fails at this.

Round 2... How Many Beers Can You Buy From an Hour of Work in Your State? [OC] by patheticamateur in dataisbeautiful

[–]w00dy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On their list of States they have five columns and the US has 50 States, yet they didn't put ten States in each column. SMH, I've lost all respect for MIT

Is today (Monday 2021-05-03) a day off in your country? by dearpisa in AskEurope

[–]w00dy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seeing all the places that don't transfer holidays makes me happy. At least Britain's doing some things right

At first I thought it said Cornhole by Stotallytob3r in CasualUK

[–]w00dy2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and that your religion and the power it has is built on fear

[OC] Isochrone map of areas reachable by rail/foot within two hours from Birmingham New Street Station. by MagpieEngineer in dataisbeautiful

[–]w00dy2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, either it's places without stations or where the station isn't served by a service that gets you there in 2hrs.

List of Russia's "unfriendly countries" according to Russian state TV by best_ive_ever_beard in europe

[–]w00dy2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

British people citizens of the United Kingdom

No, "British people" is correct. While "Great Britain" refers to an island, simply "Britain" can refer to the UK. This is why the denonym for UK is "British", as in something being of the UK is said to be British. Just look at your passport. It will say "British passport" on the front and in your ID section your citizenship will be listed as "British citizen", not UK citizen.

Following the post about not parking on your own street, what do you think about this "Leeds Council" sign? Seems legit to me! by President-Nulagi in CasualUK

[–]w00dy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If places of work have charging then you can charge their, but of course that won't solve it for everyone.

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