Originally posted by shaunbhoy
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Just listened to some sanctimonious whining SNP woman on the radio waffling on about how "people want to see real democracy".
Well if that is the case, and being as how the SNP hold sway over the political direction of Scotland with their "mandate", why don't they instigate a Proportional Representation system into the next Elections to the Scottish Parliament?
Nobody can seriously argue that to do so would not be moving towards "real democracy". But I expect that the hypocritical charlatans will not consider doing any such thing.
Well if that is the case, and being as how the SNP hold sway over the political direction of Scotland with their "mandate", why don't they instigate a Proportional Representation system into the next Elections to the Scottish Parliament?
Nobody can seriously argue that to do so would not be moving towards "real democracy". But I expect that the hypocritical charlatans will not consider doing any such thing.
Had there not been, the constituency seats would have been something like 59/7/3 SNP/Tory/Lab
You should read up on how it works, but it does actually end up with total seats (constituency seats plus list seats) being relatively close to the % vote overall. The particular system in use was designed to never allow a party a majority.
If there hadn't been a proportional system, Ruth Davidson would not have been an elected MSP until the most recent election, Labour would have had a majority in the first two terms, and the last two would have been massive SNP landslides. Only the SNP's first term in power would have been a coalition or minority government, which it was anyway.
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