As we agreed at the last Turdy Tithead championship, the standard for club membership is based entirely on a comparison with you - our consensus champion .
So naturally we applaud this OP and the way you unwittingly show us how to combine blindness and stupidity .
Another Turdy classic .
You have the popular vote and constituency vote
The popular vote is the total number of votes each party achieved in the country as a whole. Voting in the constituencies produces the seats -
Labour 9,660,081 (36.06%) and 410 seats (66.02%) -
224
Conservative 6,755,953 (25.22%) and 119 seats (19.16%) -
157
Reform 4,072,947 (15.20%) and 4 seats (0.64%) -
94
Lib Dems 3,487,568 (13.02%) and 71 seats (11.43%) -
81
Greens 1,931,880 (7.21%) and 4 seats (0.64%) -
45
SNP 685,405 (2.56%) and 9 seats (1.45%) -
16
Plaid Cymru 194,811 (0.73%) and 4 seats (0.64%) -
4
So what Tommy Tithead does is he/she focuses on what sounds good, so he just mentions the number of seats. Then you can split the above down to England, Scotland, Wales and NI. And again, Tommy Tithead only focuses on seats because the Tories achieved more votes than Plaid Cymru but achieved no seats compared to Plaid Cymru's 4.
So the adults can look at the full picture and have mature discussions while Tommy pisses and shits on the fallen's graves.
And again, it's another election where the system doesn't represent the public in parliament, and it applies to all parties because how does the number of Reform, Green, and Plaid Cymru voters get an equal voice in parliament?
So if you took the percentage of votes and equated that to representation in parliament, the number of respective seats betweens the asterisks. You need more than 326 seats to form a government, so in effect, Labour would have to go into coalition with another party. So Labour wouldn't pick the Tories or Reform, so they would have to go into coalition with 3 other parties!!
But what do you do because a Proportional Representation system has it's flaws too, as in, all too often the infighting produces nothing. But you could pick the Swiss system and have legally binding referendums.
But suffice to say, all you're gonna hear off the Tommy Tithead is the seats part, it puts a good day into his shit life.
www.theguardian.com
