I’ve blogged before about how if you are under 40, nearly half the seats in the country have never changed hands since you were born. That isn’t a system that gives real power to people’s votes. Nor is it a system in which MPs are held accountable for their behaviour.
Now this great map has been put together illustrating the point (click on map for larger version):
Credit: http://www.astr.is/electionmaps/index.html
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[Politics] A graphical demonstration of just how broken [the UK] electoral system is http://tinyurl.com/y4xzhhm
The Labour party wasn’t founded until 1900 you imbecile.
“Labour” is used as a slight shorthand on the graphic to include those ‘Labour’ MPs who pre-dated the formal creation of the party. For example, it includes two seats first won by ‘Labour’ in 1885 – Rhondda and Normanton. Rhondda was won by William Abraham who stood as a Lib-Lab in 1885 and then subsequently as a Labour Party MP. Similarly, Normanton was won by Benjamin Pickard in 1885 as one of the other Lib-Lab MPs (there were a dozen in total) and then subsequently by other Lib-Lab and then Labour candidates.