Very true and congratulations to them for achieving their first MP.
I believe that many people in the UK are fairly supportive of liberal parties and politics but end up voting Tory or Labour because they dislike the other and will vote tactically to defeat them. Compare the pre-election polling figures for the Lib Dems (up to 30% in some polls) with their much reduced true vote (20%).
They desire Single Transferable Vote (STV). The BBC provides quite a good comparison of the proposed systems and where they are currently used within the UK, along with how the 2005 election would have gone with each system: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8644480.stm
Well, one of the three main parties (Liberal Democrats) received ~20% of the votes yet significantly less than 10% of the seats, a situation which has happened in most recent elections. It is fairly simple to argue that this doesn't reflect the voting preferences of the population.
Of course, it doesn't help that the article labels the Tories as "capitalists" and Labour as "socialists" when Labour are no longer anything of the sort. They may have originally been founded on such principles but they are now fairly right-leaning (by British standards). It would be more accurate the Lib Dems socialists but that's not entirely true either because they are a mix of social liberals and economic liberals.
In the UK you can run a business as a Sole Trader without having to prepare or sumbit any legal documents. (Sole Trader meaning that you are the sole owner).
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Very true and congratulations to them for achieving their first MP. I believe that many people in the UK are fairly supportive of liberal parties and politics but end up voting Tory or Labour because they dislike the other and will vote tactically to defeat them. Compare the pre-election polling figures for the Lib Dems (up to 30% in some polls) with their much reduced true vote (20%).
They desire Single Transferable Vote (STV). The BBC provides quite a good comparison of the proposed systems and where they are currently used within the UK, along with how the 2005 election would have gone with each system: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8644480.stm
Well, one of the three main parties (Liberal Democrats) received ~20% of the votes yet significantly less than 10% of the seats, a situation which has happened in most recent elections. It is fairly simple to argue that this doesn't reflect the voting preferences of the population.
Of course, it doesn't help that the article labels the Tories as "capitalists" and Labour as "socialists" when Labour are no longer anything of the sort. They may have originally been founded on such principles but they are now fairly right-leaning (by British standards). It would be more accurate the Lib Dems socialists but that's not entirely true either because they are a mix of social liberals and economic liberals.
In the UK you can run a business as a Sole Trader without having to prepare or sumbit any legal documents. (Sole Trader meaning that you are the sole owner).