Yesterday there was a general election in the UK and this morning I was able to hear about 10 seconds of the news before I gave up in despair and turned the news off!
All the results are now in and the new parliament looks like this - Tory with a side order of SNP.
On a gain of 1.4% of the votes the conservatives gain 21 extra seats, the Labour vote went up 3.6% and they got just 15 extra seats. Maths is difficult.
On 41% of the total votes cast in England (I'll deal with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in a bit) the Conservatives got 319 out of 533 seats - HOW DOES THIS MATHS WORK?
For the UK it is even worse - 36.9% of people voted conservative - less than 4 people in 10! Yet he has a "democratic mandate" from the people which includes all of us - we voted for him so we got him..............
My constituency is worse - our MP was elected by 31.6% of the voters
If we had Proportional Representation (PR) here the house would look quite different.
Under PR we would in England have -
Conservative - 219 seats
Labour - 169 seats
Lib dems - 44 seats
UKIP - 73 seats
Green - 22 seats
Others - 5 seats (independents mostly)
However there is a number that made their statement by Not Voting AT ALL - these people do not want a government enough to turn out. Or just don't care - so lets give their vote to nobody at all - if they cannot be bothered to vote, nobody should be elected - there were 3 MILLION more people DID NOT VOTE than voted Conservative - 3 MILLION.
Over 1 person in 3 did not vote who could have voted.
The new English parliament looks like this
Conservative - 144 seats
Labour - 111 seats
Lib dems - 29 seats
UKIP - 48 seats
Green - 15 seats
Others - 3 seats (independents mostly)
Empty - 183 seats (Saving 67060 per seat so - £12,271,980 saved per year = ~£70 million by the time pay rises are taken into account in the term of the parliament!)
All the results are now in and the new parliament looks like this - Tory with a side order of SNP.
On a gain of 1.4% of the votes the conservatives gain 21 extra seats, the Labour vote went up 3.6% and they got just 15 extra seats. Maths is difficult.
On 41% of the total votes cast in England (I'll deal with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in a bit) the Conservatives got 319 out of 533 seats - HOW DOES THIS MATHS WORK?
For the UK it is even worse - 36.9% of people voted conservative - less than 4 people in 10! Yet he has a "democratic mandate" from the people which includes all of us - we voted for him so we got him..............
My constituency is worse - our MP was elected by 31.6% of the voters
If we had Proportional Representation (PR) here the house would look quite different.
Under PR we would in England have -
Conservative - 219 seats
Labour - 169 seats
Lib dems - 44 seats
UKIP - 73 seats
Green - 22 seats
Others - 5 seats (independents mostly)
However there is a number that made their statement by Not Voting AT ALL - these people do not want a government enough to turn out. Or just don't care - so lets give their vote to nobody at all - if they cannot be bothered to vote, nobody should be elected - there were 3 MILLION more people DID NOT VOTE than voted Conservative - 3 MILLION.
Over 1 person in 3 did not vote who could have voted.
The new English parliament looks like this
Conservative - 144 seats
Labour - 111 seats
Lib dems - 29 seats
UKIP - 48 seats
Green - 15 seats
Others - 3 seats (independents mostly)
Empty - 183 seats (Saving 67060 per seat so - £12,271,980 saved per year = ~£70 million by the time pay rises are taken into account in the term of the parliament!)
Scotland has 56 SNP (50% of the vote), 1 Labour (24.3%), 1 Conservative (14.9%), and 1 Liberal MP (7.5%)
Under PR it looks like this in Scotland -
SNP - 35 seats
Labour - 17 seats
Conservative - 9 seats
Liberals - 5 seats
UKIP - 1 seat
Green - 1 seat
Others - none
Taking into account the 1.62 Million people who did not vote we get
SNP - 21 seats
Labour - 10 seats
Conservative - 6 seats
Liberals - 3 seats
UKIP - 1 seat
Green - 1 seat
Others - none
Empty - 17 seats (1.14 million pounds saved)
Wales has 40 seats and 25 Labour (36.9% of the vote) 11 Tories (27.2%) Plaid Cymru (12.1%) 1 Lib dem (6.5%) no UKIP(13.6%) and no others
Under PR we get in Wales
Labour - 15 Seats
Conservative - 11 Seats
Plaid Cymru - 5 seats
Lib Dem - 3 seats
UKIP - 5 seats
Green - 1 seat
Others - 0 seats
Taking the 785909 people who did not vote into account we get
Labour - 10 Seats
Conservative - 7 Seats
Plaid Cymru - 3 seats
Lib Dem - 2 seats
UKIP - 4 seats
Green - 1 seat
Others - 0 seats
Empty - 14 seats (£938840 saving per year)
Northern Ireland has 18 seats and an electorate of 1,236,683
DUP - 5 seats (Actual 8)
Sinn Fein - 4 seats (Actual 4)
SDLP - 3 seats (Actual 3)
UUP - 3 seats (Actual 2)
Alliance party - 2 seats (actual 0)
The others got 1 seat for real and get 1 seat under PR
But lets take the whopping 41.9% who did not vote at all
DUP - 3 seats
Sinn Fein - 3 seats
UUP - 2 seats
Alliance - 1 seat
Everybody else none with 8 empty seats (Saving us a cool £536480 a year in salaries)
For the UK a a whole we get the following taking no votes and PR
Unfilled - 223 seats saving £74771900 over a 5 year term
Conservative - 159 seats
Labour - 131 seats
UKIP - 54 seats
Liberals - 34 seats
SNP 20 seats
Green 16 seats
DUP and Plaid - 3 seats each
Sinn Fein and others - 2 seats each
SDLP, Alliance party and TUSC - 1 seat each
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