[DataDaemon]

poor Brits

[sunaookami]

Every country gets the government it deserves.

[ceayo]

the problem is this is affecting people outside of the UK too...

[themafia]

You can cheat elections with enough money. Excepting that citizens are generally not on an equal footing with their own government. Party politics exist.

[munksbeer]

We don't have "true democracy" in the UK. There are two main issues:

  - Votes are not equal. You need to win constituencies to get "a point". If you get enough points, you can form the government. But that means huge parts of sparsely populated areas have votes which count for more than the densely populated parts, where people's votes count for less.

  - You don't need an overall majority to win "a point". You just need more than every other candidate in that constituency. That means a government can gain absolute majority power with a very low overall vote share. The current government got 34% of the overall votes, yet won the largest government majority in history.

And we're trapped with this system, because the main parties won't let us change it. When it was tried, and we had a national referendum on it, they rigged the vote in their favour by only offering a complicated and relatively crap alternative and spent our money on propaganda like this:

https://politicaladvertising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/0...

I love the UK in so many ways, but sometimes it makes it very hard to love.

[cosmicgadget]

"Why don't Afghani women rise up and overthrow the Taliban? Are they stupid?"

[rob_c]

Thanks for lumping me in with the great unwashed.