The UK Election Results Were the Worst in History

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Recommends Qwertious · 2015-07 · on “Why do some countries drive on the left and others on the right?”

I think you'll appreciate this CGO Grey video: [this video] . You're not wrong , but the system is nonetheless extremely misrepresentative.

Recommends NeedMoreTea · 2019-04 · on “Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet?”

> suggests a lack of representation That's a big can of worms for HN. Suffice to say we have one of the least representative democracies and it's steadily getting worse. First past the post is no longer fit for an electorate that wants to vote increasingly for minor parties. It works where there are just two choices. Individual constituencies, especially safe seats, are often hugely unrepresentative. Finally add demographics that skew the ageing electorate ever more tory, until the baby boom finishes playing out. So that's less North-South more safe seats vs everywhere else. Yet it does often play out North-South most when seeing election results maps. Still Scotland votes overwhelmingly aga

Recommends dmitriid · 2022-04 · on “UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned”

> creepy undemocratic bureaucracy of the EU > need for control and action on a local level Ah you mean that local control and democracy when the party with 13% of the votes gets 0.2% seats in the parliament", right? [1] [1] Great CGP Grey video on the 2015 General Election in the UK: [this video]

Cites NeedMoreTea · 2019-04 · on “Poor public transport explains the UK’s productivity puzzle”

> makes it seems like the UK is this corrupt, broke country when it couldn't be further from the truth. If so, how is it that we no longer fund $service adequately any more (where $service is any and all of them)? How is that possible after so much has been privatised leaving so many fewer to fund publicly? Why can't we afford enough police? Why can't we afford adequate library provision? Interesting that parliament keeps their public library though, isn't it? How is it that in a time of highest levels of employment food banks have grown from barely existing to being everywhere? Could it be that policy has resulted in deliberately inadequate welfare provision? How, in a time of such extensiv

Cites tacocataco · 2021-12 · on “Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’”

I'm not from the UK, but CGP grey is AFAIK. He has a short video called "Why the UK Election Results are the Worst in History" (2015). IMO, it seems like First Past the Post voting is the problem still. [this video]

Cites dijit · 2022-05 · on “Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance plan on May 11”

Thanks for taking the time to think about it. > Democracy itself always gives rights to the majority against the will of the minority. this is true and it has a name I believe; the "Tyranny of the Majority", I think. > The tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses) is an inherent weakness to majority rule in which the majority of an electorate pursues exclusively its own objectives at the expense of those of the minority factions. Unfortunately, as you mentioned, being _more democratic_ ultimately lends itself to being this way. However one neat trick the EU has (and I promise I'm not trying to spin this as pro-EU, as it's only in one place): is that the direct votes are split propor