18-11-2020, 03:30 PM
(18-11-2020, 02:07 PM)Stuart Giles Wrote:True - and our electoral is based on constituencies the boundaries of which need to be regularly updated to keep things in balance. If the changes necessary to allow for population growth and movement had been put in place ten years ago (the Liberal Democrats then in coalition blocked them), at the last election the Conservatives would have won an additional 24 seats.(18-11-2020, 12:47 PM)Tony Griffiths Wrote: People did not vote for the Green Party, they voted for a Conservative government.
Voters may have put the Conservatives in power in 2019. But according to t'interweb, the last time a true majority of the UK electorate voted for the winning party in a general election was 1931 -possibly an an appropriate factoid to appear on a forum dedicated to pre war cars.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brexi...-m0cqg762g
But it's a very complex issue: https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/bounda...ies-381109