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shewhomust) wrote2019-05-28 12:18 pm
shewhomust) wrote2019-05-28 12:18 pm
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Election results
The North-East of England now has one Labour and two Brexit Party MEPs (formerly two Labour and one UKIP who left the party and declared himself Independent): the only sense in which this is not bad news is that it is not really news at all, but very much as predicted.
In theory proportional representation means that you get a better representation of the minority parties: it works better in the larger constituencies, where one of the six or seven people elected might well be from the party you voted for. Where there's a lower population, and only three MEPs, not so much. Yet the North-East of England is a large and diverse area. But then, Scotland only has 6 MEPs...
I don't know the solution to this. I handwashed my Icelandic knitted waistcoat, and used the two very ripe bananas to bake blueberry muffins.
In theory proportional representation means that you get a better representation of the minority parties: it works better in the larger constituencies, where one of the six or seven people elected might well be from the party you voted for. Where there's a lower population, and only three MEPs, not so much. Yet the North-East of England is a large and diverse area. But then, Scotland only has 6 MEPs...
I don't know the solution to this. I handwashed my Icelandic knitted waistcoat, and used the two very ripe bananas to bake blueberry muffins.