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Source.

Surely basic respect is not so much to ask of colleagues?

If you visit BelieveinScotland.org they have rallies going on across Scotland tomorrow!

I have a feeling that I'm going to be downvoted for this because 'the good guys' won in this case but for me this is a very sobering statistic:

Labour share of UK vote: 33.7%
Labour share of UK seats: 63.4%

Contrast this with Scotlands results:

SNP share of the vote in Scotland: 29.9%
SNP share of Scotlands MP seats: 15.8%

Labour won a sweeping victory in the whole of the UK, and with an almost identical vote share in Scotland the SNP suffered a crushing defeat.

Stepping back a little further and look at all of the parties in the UK and what they should have gotten under a more fair voting scheme: (Excluding Irish, Welsh and Scottish exclusive parties)

Labour:
Share: 33.7% should mean 219 seats, reality: 412 seats
They got 188% of the seats they should have gotten.

Conservatives:
Share: 23.7% should mean 154 seats, reality: 121 seats
They got 79% of the seats they should have gotten.

Liberal democrats: Share: 12.2% should mean 79 seats, reality: 71 seats
Actually good result, or close enough.
They got 90% of the seats they should have gotten.

Reform UK:
Share: 14.3% should mean 93 seats, reality: 4 seats
They got 4% of the seats they should have gotten.

Green Party:
Share: 6.8% should mean 44 seats, reality: 4 seats
They got 9% of the seats they should have gotten.

I'm sure people will celebrate reform getting such a pitiful share of the seats despite such a large vote share but I'll counterpoint that maybe if our voting system wasn't so broken they wouldn't have picked up such a massive protest vote in the first place.

These parties have voting reform in their manifestos: (Excluding national parties except the SNP just because I don't have time to check them all)
* SNP
* Reform UK
* Liberal Democrats
* The Green party

These parties don't:
* Labour
* Conservatives

Anyone else spot the pattern? For as long as the two largest parties are content to swap sweeping majorities back and forwards with <50% of the vote our political system will continue to be broken.

For the record I voted SNP in this election, after checking polls to see if I needed to vote tactically, because I cannot in good conscience vote for a party without voting reform in their manifesto. It is, in my opinion, the single biggest issue plaguing British politics today. We should look no further than the extreme polarisation of US politics to see where it might head.

The British public prove time and time again that they don't want a 2 party system with such a massive variety of parties present at every election and almost half voting for them despite it being a complete waste of your vote most of the time and the UK political system continues to let them down.

EDIT: Rediscovered this video from CGP grey about the 2015 election, feels very relevant today and he makes the point far better than I ever could.

Anyone else realised anyone in their life has become an utter cunt? Never thought I’d feel so bleak on a day the Tories are out, it feels like this is just a meaningless pause for a wider fascist tide rising up. I’m 25, and it feels like a lot of young guys my age are falling for Farage and the wider alt-right brand of shite he peddles that’s become so dominant across the world. I don’t want to be all doom and gloom, but things just seem so fucked, divisive and poisonous in this country, more and more as time goes on. It’s just scary man.