varian
The SNP is ludicrously over-represented in the House of Commons.
At the last general election, the SNP gained 3.9% of the votes, resulting in 48 seats, so they are the second largest party, giving their leader all sorts of priviliges.
The Liberal Democrats gained 11.5% of the votes, resulting in only 11 MPs. The Green Party gained 2.7% of the vote and only 1MP.
How could anyone call this democracy?
SNP is the third largest part after Tories and Labour.
The skewed relationship between vote share and number of seats won just shows how the vote is concentrated in a smaller part of the Union, a part which thinks very differently to the other countries of the Union. In the more PR-like Scottish Government elections, the SNP get about 48% of the seats for about 45% of the vote.
The SNP stand in a part of the Union with only 8% of the population, whereas the Lib Dems are present across the whole Union, 12 times the size of Scotland, but only get 3 times the vote.
But I do agree, the WM system is unfair.