These results don't look like "conservative government" to me. Lots of countries have weird first-past-the-post systems. :(pic.twitter.com/9pvVXrQR1b
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These results don't look like "conservative government" to me. Lots of countries have weird first-past-the-post systems. :(pic.twitter.com/9pvVXrQR1b
I'm seeing a lot of people in the US using "but it's bad in other countries too" as some kind of justification
there's no justification to a shitty system, but amnesia about UK having first-past-the-post does no good.
just lots of people not in the US talking about the electoral college as uniquely bizarre.
I didn't get that from @sarah_edo's tweet. Also, in the screenshot you showed, CON won the popular vote too.
it won a (small) plurality, but the people clearly didn't want CON.
The UK didn't have a conservative government after that election, so I'm not sure why you're using that as an example. It was a coalition.
people who voted for libdems would be surprised to learn that they voted for immediate austerity.
And university fee hikes, which the libs were explicitly against. Still doesn't change the fact it wasn't a conservative government.
I brought it up as an example of a result that doesn't match the majority of the popular vote.
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