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Originally Posted by Livia

Oh, some statistics. Nice. Here's a statistic for you: roughly 50% of people eligible to vote didn't even bother to get off their arses and drag themselves to a polling station. That's depressing.

The candidates who get the most votes wins the seat, and the party that gets the most seats is the winner. You can rub the statistics anyway you like, that's the bottom line.

Like I said, democracy is arguably the best system of governance we've come up with thus far. That doesn't make it "good". It's still crap, and the result is still a population being run by a group of people that the majority of citizens (even those who did vote) did not vote for, and do not want. THAT is the bottom line. I'm not saying I have a better alternative.

Besides - my point was only that you used the fact that "the majority of people didn't vote for labour" to illustrate a point of some sort. I was only pointing out that it's not really much of a point, as the majority of voters didn't vote Tory either.