You can get a cut off below which they cannot get a seat. Also as much as I hate the BNP if they get a seat it will be because the government has failed the constituency. Why do you think that they did so well in council elections a few years ago? Government has to deal with the issues or there will be BNP winning seats.

Sillier than a system where a party's number of seats has nothing to do with its share of the vote?

In 2005:

Labour won 55.2% of seats with 35.2% of votes
Tories won 30.7% of seats with 32.4% of votes
LibDem won 9.6% of seats with 22% of votes
UKIP won 0% of seats with 2.2% of votes

In 2010:

Labour won 39.7% of seats with 29.0% of the vote
Tories won 47.1% of seats with 36.1% of votes
LibDem won 8.8% of seats with 23.0% of votes
UKIP won 0% of seats with 3.1% of votes

That can't possibly be described as democratic representation, surely?


And?

Majority governments are, by definition, an elected dictatorship that cannot be restrained except by internal rebellion. The opposition cannot, even with unanimity, vote down the executive without significant help from government rebels.

To have a system where, most of the time, the executive is unrestrained by Parliament cannot be anything other than a dangerous, ludicrous and totally undemocratic state of affairs.


That's very easy to deal with using thresholds.

Or a shotgun. Either works.

Now now - naughty naughty.

And you'd always get a Lib/Lab coalition government with over 50%.
They'd treat the public with contempt knowing they wouldn't be voted out, much like Labour did when they had a large majority.
At the moment, the most popular party in any election has a reasonable chance of winning. That's as it should be.

I'd like to say the weaker coalition party will temper the stronger party's more controversial leanings. However, the current coalition of tyrants and sellouts has pretty much killed off that notion.

It will probably be more of a two party state in future. The Lib Dems could take a generation to come back from this period in power.

Sadly the same can't be said about the people who're actually calling the shots, the Tories.

Actually I think what they are doing to the NHS might actually do that to them. Karma.