What you voted for:
Con 231; Lab 191; LibDem 148; Plaid/SNP 17; UKIP 20; BNP 11; Green 5; Others 9.
What you got:
Con 306; Lab 258; LibDem 57; Plaid/SNP 9; Green 1; Others 1.
Northern Ireland has been excluded for the purposes of this illustration.
OK, so it's a fairly crude application of Proportional Representation - in reality there would still be a slight skew in favour of the larger parties, but nothing like the result we have actually got, which, yet again, and despite having a hung parliament, is still a gross distortion of the actual poll.
It occurred to me today, that providing Clegg doesn't bottle it, I might well be becoming poltically active again, at least on this single issue. Be assured in the event he can secure, at the very least, the promise of a referendum on electoral reform I will be campaigning effusively for a "Yes" vote in favour of adopting a voting system that means every vote counts in every seat.
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