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[nineveh_uk]

Well at least if everything is going to go to shit, I have a weekend with my family to commiserate in. But this is clearly going to take all night and I have to go to work tomorrow, so I'm off to bed. I was going to do a little rant, but I don't think I can be bothered to put it together (and I still need to pack). Let's see how things stand in the morning.

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[(Anonymous)]

Wouldn't PR have resulted in substantial UKIP seats. I understand people are upset, but UKIP as well would have surely been an awful result.
Lizzzar

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly it would, although I believe many PR systems do have a "threshold" vote percentage a party must meet for representation. But the SNP polled 2 million votes and got 56 seats (+95% of Scottish constituencies), and UKIP polled 4 million votes and got 1. I loathe everything that UKIP stands for, but I don't feel that that is a proper outcome of a fair electoral system. UKIP should be countered by confronting their policies (and other parties will be entirely free not to make agreements with them in government), they aren't a justification to keep an unfair system.