{"id":437,"date":"2005-04-18T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/18\/the-unfairness-of-the-system\/"},"modified":"2005-04-18T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T14:40:00","slug":"the-unfairness-of-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/the-unfairness-of-the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The unfairness of the system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hicks, using the BBC&#8217;s electoral calculator, again highlights <a href=\"http:\/\/tim.hicks.me.uk\/blog\/archive\/2005\/04\/18\/why-do-we-vote-like-this\">how insane the current voting system is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the three main parties on 30% of the vote each, 10% going to others, <a href=\"http:\/\/news3.thdo.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/vote2005\/seatcalculator\/html\/default.stm?dataset=uk&amp;LAB=30&amp;CON=30&amp;LD=30&amp;OTH=10&amp;mode=CALCULATE+RESULTS\">here are the results we would get<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Labour 328, Conservatives 201, Liberal Democrats 86, Others 31<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s on the same share of the popular vote. Democracy? Bollocks, more like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hicks, using the BBC&#8217;s electoral calculator, again highlights how insane the current voting system is. With the three main parties on 30% of the vote each, 10% going to others, here are the results we would get: Labour 328, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/the-unfairness-of-the-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}