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Originally Posted by jambutty
As I understand it democracy is the rule by the wishes of the majority. As far as the UK is concerned that is not the case. The government voted into office is there because of the wishes of the minority of those eligible to vote in the country. But the government twists the democracy rule by using the majority of those who cast a vote.
However even then democracy is squashed. Each MP voted into Parliament has one vote when it comes to deciding a course of action. Yet one MP can have attained office with 65,000 people voting for him whilst another only had 10,000 vote for him. Yet both votes in Parliament carry the same weight.
A strange form of democracy!
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Seems like you are in favor of some form of proportional representation ... and this I would agree with ... just for an example, and this is not an indication of my politics, the Canadian Green Party won about 10% of the national vote in the last General Election, but won no seats. Under some form of proportional representation, the thousands of people who voted Greeen would have a voice in parliament. I don't know how it is in England, but in Canada, in both Provincial and Federal elections, the winning party often has less than fifty per cent of the vote.
