Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
If 4 years ago I had concluded that Labour would need at least 40% of the vote to expect a majority, but I did not anticipate such a large vote-split between Tories and BNP, nor such effective targeting by Labour and LibDems. The SNP did indeed get crushed though, offering up 3 dozen seats to Labour. No idea what effect redistricting had.

I wonder if anyone in the UK will admit, following one of the most lopsided results (ratios) in British history, that maybe pure FPTP is a little wack.
Yes Prime Minister called this out in the 1970s - the system almost always benefits the incumbents and major opposition so reform is always at best delayed.

After WW2, the Allies created Germany's system and then all chose to not implement something similar.