Brace for the most distorted election result in British history

I’m sure that, once Tel Aviv Keith is installed in Number 10 with a huge majority, he’ll take steps to rectify this undemocratic imbalance, and will certainly not stuff the Lords full of cronies or seek to ride roughshod over democratic norms and stifle dissent to keep himself in power in the face of the inevitable backlash

I think this might be the first time I’ve seen FPTP being advocated to support more right wing parties, and claiming FPTP is unfair on them…

…might be…

FT were suspiciously quiet on the unfairness of FPTP when it was benefitting the Conservative Party. Weird isn’t it?

Having said that, FPTP really needs to go. It’s insane that 41% of the national vote share should equate to 70% of seats in parliament while 20% of national vote can equate to 10% of seats in parliament.

Exactly what form PR should be is of course a whole other topic, but a system called DPR (Direct Party and Representative Voting) looks like a good (or less bad) option.

https://www.dprvoting.org/Short_description.htm

The website explains it better than I can, but in these examples, Labour gets 70% of seats; 455, but on national share (41%) they should only get 266. Similarly Con gets 10% of seats; 65, but on national share they should get 130.

LAB: Divide national share by seat share to get an adjustment figure (41/70=0.586), so each Labour MPs vote is only worth 0.586 of a vote. 0.5857 x 455 (actual seats) is 266 votes – the number of votes proportional to their national share.

CON: Divide national share by seat share to get an adjustment figure (20/10=2.0), so each Con MPs vote is now worth 2.0 votes. 2 x 65 (actual seats) is 130 votes – again, the number of votes proportional to their national share.

As a result, everyone gets the local MP based on simple majority (as with FPTP),but the voting “power” of all MPs is adjusted to reflect national share which evens the field and (in theory) makes everyone adopt less extreme views in order to appear to the broadest audience, but any extreme right or left view is given the representation those parties achieved nationally, so *everyone’s* vote actually matters, unlike FPTP where the views of a majority of voters are simply discarded if their MP doesn’t make the simple majority, something that only makes sense if there are only 2 parties.