The most unfair election ever?

[Mr Creosote]

http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/publications/briefings/election2005.pdf

(acrobat document)

Seems to be an unarguable case.

[sweetheart]

1. Seems tony the liar ought to consider proportional representation

And he cynically wonder's why people are not interested in politics...
when he presides over a system grossly disenfranchising persons.

The independent had a front page article on this this past tuesday:
"Just 22% of the electorate backed tony blair. He won 36% of the
votes cast - and 55% of the seats in the House of Commons. He argues
that there is 'no appetite' for electoral reform... 62%! disagree
with him."

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=638939

Indeed, the case is inarguable except by bLIARS.

[Guy_Montag]

2. Since 1997 elections have changed

if Labour didn't introduce targeted campaigning, they took it to a whole new level. Now all parties follow the same strategy, it means that only a few people can usefully use their vote. I can see the day when each party polls roughly 30% of the vote & we still have landslides, one way or the other.

[sweetheart]

3. In your report, galloway represents 4 times as many persons...

as a labour MP.... He's the heaviest weight in the parliament...
obviously the right man to deliver a message to the nazis. :-)

[Mr Creosote]

4. Hey don't shoot the messenger

it's not MY report. But actually, one thing that concerned me was that under another system, Galloway, or the guy in Blaenau Gwent wouldn't get in.

[T_i_B]

5. Vote inquiry in Galloway's seat

Funny you should have mentioned him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4564221.stm

Election officials in MP George Galloway's constituency are investigating 250 complaints from people who were unable to vote.

A spokesman for Tower Hamlets Council said it was examining reports from people who found they were not on the register on polling day.

Mr Galloway beat Labour in Bethnal Green and Bow by 823 just votes but has complained about the electoral roll. On election night the newly elected Respect MP attacked the council for publishing an electoral roll "so shot through with errors and anomalies... as to be almost meaningless".

The council stressed the complaints came in a constituency which had 83,000 eligible voters.