ARmy Rumour SErvice

**Finn1939** · 13-12-2011, 02:47

Originally Posted by saladin

The real constitutional anomaly is that we are governed at Wasteminster by a Party that has exactly 1 MP in Scotland.

That's more to do with the voting system then anything else. Conservatives only got 36% of the vote nationwide, and are massively overrepresented for England, let alone everyone else.

**Fang_Farrier** · 13-12-2011, 07:16

Originally Posted by Gravelbelly

Really? I'd have thought the anomaly was that a party that got 16.7% of all votes cast in Scotland, only got one seat; a party with 19.9% of all votes cast got six seats; and the party with 18.9% of the vote got eleven seats.

So that perhaps shows the difference between the faults of the Westminister voting system and the far more successful glorious Scottish system which allows for more thieving Tory bastard MSPs.

Interesting statistic number 94. Scotland has more Pandas that Tory MPs!

**saladin** · 13-12-2011, 10:53

GB - 1 MP or 16.7% of the vote. either way you cut it its not exactly a mandate to govern is it ?

**rampant** · 13-12-2011, 11:00

Originally Posted by saladin

GB - 1 MP or 16.7% of the vote. either way you cut it its not exactly a mandate to govern is it ?

But when combined with the Lib Dem vote (18.9% it is a coalition afterall) gives them 35.6% of the vote, 15.7% more than the SNP (19.9%), but 6.4% less than Labour (42.0%)

**saladin** · 13-12-2011, 11:32

....and still no mandate to govern Scotland, even with the limp dems "helping" !

**rampant** · 13-12-2011, 11:39

As a percentage it was fractionally more than that Labour achieved nationwide in the 2005 General Election(35.2%) giving them 355 seats, though saying that it was still a higher percentage than the Tories (32.4%, 198 seats) and the Libs (22%, 62 seats).