Election 2019: The Morning After: The Hidden Messages

A lot of stuff is being said by worn out commentators, some of which is just not true. The truth lies in the figures. Here are some interesting ones. There will be more in the coming days but these are the basics mid-morning Friday.

That Stonking Great Mandate 

The total number of votes cast for the Tories and the Brexit Party was

14,583,409

The total number of votes cast for the parties opposed to Boris’s Brexit, Labour, Lib Dems, Scot Nats, Plaid Cymru, Sinn Fein, the DUP and Greens was

16,654,064

Our first past the post archaic and unsuitable voting system for Westminster elections gave Boris seats yes, but he is  two million votes short of a national mandate for his single issue Brexit plan.

Our Democracy

For 13.94 million votes the Tories won 364 seats

For 10.29 million votes Labour won 203 seats

For 3.67 million votes the Lib Dems won 11 seats

For 1.24 million voes the SNP won 48 seats

For 244 thousand votes the DUP won 8 seats

For 864 thousand votes the Greens won 1 seat.

This is completely ridiculous. It is not fit for purpose. Every vote must have the same value and every party must, above a reasonable minimum threshold, gain seats in proportion to their support.