Slackjaw Politics

So the LDs have been caned for not holding back the Tories enough, despite being the junior members of the coalition. The public are very unfair; it would have been so much worse without them.

In Wales, Labour are slowly making it a one-party state and in Scotland, the SNP are reaping their rewards for treating it as the local election it is, while Labour's Ed Millipede tried to make Scottish Parliament elections a referendum on UK coalition government. The Scots have the right of it; they know how to vote in Scottish Parliament elections to get what they want and it's different to what they do in UK elections to get their best result. The idiot is Millipede, not Salmond.

The likely death of AV as a first step to stronger voting reform means that the debate will stay closed for a generation - the people will be deemed to have said 'No'. Thanks guys, for a reasoned and informative debate on the pros and cons, which engaged the electorate and brought them out en masse for their only chance at electoral reform.

Result? All the reformist fervour of a year ago will dissipate as the two main UK parties reconsolidate their positions and maintain their privileges at the expense of democracy and representation.


The benefits of your apathy?

See your party with 25% of the popular vote continue to get 9% of the representation. See smaller parties do even worse. See huge majorities built on low levels of support. See majorities built on minority support.

See strong government continue, see democracy slowly whither and die on the vine.

Slackjaw Politics

So the LDs have been caned for not holding back the Tories enough, despite being the junior members of the coalition. The public are very unfair; it would have been so much worse without them.

In Wales, Labour are slowly making it a one-party state and in Scotland, the SNP are reaping their rewards for treating it as the local election it is, while Labour's Ed Millipede tried to make Scottish Parliament elections a referendum on UK coalition government. The Scots have the right of it; they know how to vote in Scottish Parliament elections to get what they want and it's different to what they do in UK elections to get their best result. The idiot is Millipede, not Salmond.

The likely death of AV as a first step to stronger voting reform means that the debate will stay closed for a generation - the people will be deemed to have said 'No'. Thanks guys, for a reasoned and informative debate on the pros and cons, which engaged the electorate and brought them out en masse for their only chance at electoral reform.

Result? All the reformist fervour of a year ago will dissipate as the two main UK parties reconsolidate their positions and maintain their privileges at the expense of democracy and representation.


The benefits of your apathy?

See your party with 25% of the popular vote continue to get 9% of the representation. See smaller parties do even worse. See huge majorities built on low levels of support. See majorities built on minority support.

See strong government continue, see democracy slowly whither and die on the vine.