The electoral system has been biased towards Labour since the last set of boundary changes

The number of votes the Tories need to get, to win the same number of seats as Labour, is significantly higher; which makes Cameron's result in the last general election all the more remarkable.

He genuinely wasn't expecting to win, btw - and he really didn't want a Brexit referendum at all. He thought it would be another coalition and he'd "reluctantly let the referendum go" as part of those negotiations...

Personally, I think the case for fewer MPs, with each MP responsible for roughly the same number of electors, is pretty much unanswerable. Though I'm the kind of person who thinks PR is probably a good idea, so I wouldn't listen to me if I were you.

The current Tory government is guilty of plenty of things (cf Health, Education...). Gerrymandering isn't one of them.

Posted By: Old Man, Sep 13, 18:52:22