UK exports to EU slashed by 68% since Brexit

Re:UK exports to EU slashed by 68% since Brexit by tom_mellior on Sunday February 07, 2021 @02:07PM (#26057249)

The Liberal Democrats got 1/4th of the Conservatives' votes but only 1/35th of the Conservatives' seats. Heck, they got 3x as many votes as the SNP but less than a quarter of their seats. EDIT: Also, the LibDems got 50% more votes in 2019 than in each of the previous two general elections, which is a hell of a fact to twist as "did not fare well".

If your intention was to refute my argument that first-past-the-post doesn't accurately capture voters' opinions, you failed.

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Re:UK exports to EU slashed by 68% since Brexit by jfengel on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:09AM (#26078319)

My point was only that people had an anti-Brexit choice that they didn't pick.

I'm in complete agreement that FPTP is a terrible system, and does a miserable job capturing voters opinions. It does so even when there are many extra parties available. (The LibDems were, after all, part of a governing coalition just five years ago.)

The problem is coming up with a significantly better system. The UK is in this mess because of a direct vote that didn't really measure voters' opinions, either.

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