UK elections thread

[Luco]

The coalition was political suicide for the lib dems, they lost this election 5 years ago when they reneged on their tuition fees promise.

I agree with hoopy re ed milliband, this may have been a totally different story if David milliband had won the leadership instead.

Conservatives are going to use their majority to change constituency boundaries and cement their position, they will be hard to beat in 2020

First past the post was murder for ukip but awesome for snp

[Keith]

The coalition was political suicide for the lib dems, they lost this election 5 years ago when they reneged on their tuition fees promise.

on the plus side they probably got better pensions than they would have got without being in government.

I agree with hoopy re ed milliband, this may have been a totally different story if David milliband had won the leadership instead.

again you could say that this was a political shooting themselves in the foot moment when the unions used their block votes to get a sympathetic Ed the leadership instead of David.if spitting image was still going i'm sure he'd have experienced the same treatment that John Major received from them.

Conservatives are going to use their majority to change constituency boundaries and cement their position, they will be hard to beat in 2020

those boundary changes were already voted through during the last parliament and from the description are designed so that each seat represents a similar number of voters.

First past the post was murder for ukip but awesome for snp

you could also say it didn't help labour either as UKIP took quite a lot of votes from labour and in the north a lot of tories appear to have tactically switched to ukip putting UKIP into second place in many Labour seats

[Hoopy]

Conservatives are going to use their majority to change constituency boundaries and cement their position, they will be hard to beat in 2020

First past the post was murder for ukip but awesome for snp

This election has got me thinking more about voting systems than any other political issue. It seems to me that FPTP is a inherently flawed system because it doesn't accurately represent voters wishes.

The Conservatives got 37% of the vote but they've got an majority even when 63% of the voters didn't want them. Like Luco says you have to watch out for gerrymandering all the time with FPTP. Also voting for a 3rd party often hurts you overall, e.g. voting for a centre-left party will often take away a vote for the main left wing party which helps the right wing party. So people end up voting tactically rather than for who they want.

We need single transferable vote, proportional representation or schulze method.