This election may well end up being the straw that breaks the camel’s back for the ridiculous FPTP system. Ironically those calls will be loudest from the simple minded right who up to now have always said FPTP offers “change” and guarantees “strong government” (lolz). What it’s always guaranteed is a one party demagoguery on always no more 40-45% of the votes cast. The old adage goes that you get the government you deserve but that’s rarely, if ever, true, at least in Britain. We usually get a government contrary to the votes of the majority of the population. It’s an affront to democracy and always has been.
My hope and expectation for tomorrow is for a Labour government but I don’t want to see the Tories’ wiped out, as fun as that will be in the short term. If that happens the future is Farage and whatever his next “party” ends up being called. We’ve seen where that leads to in France and other parts of the world. Five to 10 years of sensible, responsible and non dramatic, non corrupt government will go along way towards heading that off. But I yearn for an electoral system where a percentage of votes cast equates to a similar