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You're being economical with the truth though. Sure, the government makes up 36% of the vote, but another 17% of the vote keeps them in with a confidence and supply arrangement, so they can't force through legislation that the majority don't agree with. Compare that with the way the Tories run...

Yes but people like you VOTE for those parties and they are being ignored. Meanwhile - as we are seeing right now - the two main parties can stink of crass incompetence and STILL cling onto 80% of the seats in the Commons. How is that right?

Let's rewind, because all you're doing is repeating what you said in your second post - something I am not arguing with. I'll repeat the bit you wrote in your first post that I consider to be complete rubbish: "People always seem to think that the only reason we don't have PR is because 'they'...

You said we voted to keep FPTP, and more specifically "People always seem to think that the only reason we don't have PR is because 'they' don't want us to have it, whereas WE decided we didn't want to change from FPTP." You can't tell us the only reason we don't have PR is because people voted...

Eh? ??? On an election by election basis, the winning party gets in with around 33% of the vote. That means 67% of the electorate don't get what they want. That is what is relevant. Your argument, if I understand it correctly, is nonsensical. You may as well say that 90% of the country...

This is a stupid argument. How is it any better that 70% of the nation gets the worst excesses of the will of 30% foisted upon them, as is the case now? Again, as opposed to 70% of the electorate now, who don't get any of what they want at all. Godwin's law invoked. You lose.

So did the rest of the country, as they were annihilated in 2015. The Tories remained unscathed and have proceeded to fck up the country since then, with the Brexit shambles, punishing the poor with austerity, and an ever increasing disparity of wealth. We get the government we deserve. As...