{"id":1212,"date":"2010-05-12T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T09:36:07","slug":"its-time-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"It’s Time For Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I go any further I should inform you, that I’m entirely apolitical, I honestly couldn’t care less about politics, or which political party is in power, but I do believe in democracy, and care about equal rights and fairness<\/p>\n

As the Conservatives campaign slogan states “It’s Time For Change”<\/p>\n

And they’re not wrong, but it’s not necessarily the government that needed changing, but the way they were elected! Look at the figures below, Conservatives get 36% of votes, but that equates to 47% of the House of Commons seats, Labour’s 29% of votes equates to 40%, the Liberals 23% only equals 9%, while the remaining 12% of votes only equals 4% of seats.<\/p>\n

1 Conservative vote = 1.3
\n1 Labour vote = 1.37
\n1 Liberal vote = 0.39
\n1 Others vote = 0.33<\/p>\n

That means every Conservative vote was 3.33 times that of a Liberal vote!
\nIt may be democratic, but it’s hardly fair!<\/p>\n

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Before I go any further I should inform you, that I’m entirely apolitical, I honestly couldn’t care less about politics, or which political party is in power, but I do believe in democracy, and care about equal rights and fairness As the Conservatives campaign slogan states “It’s Time For Change” And they’re not wrong, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35],"tags":[154,474,414,475,415,476,477,478,449,479],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel","category-visualisation-infographics","tag-change","tag-conservatives","tag-david-cameron","tag-democracy","tag-gordon-brown","tag-infographic","tag-labour","tag-liberal-democrats","tag-nick-clegg","tag-uk-general-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}