Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
Even if Labour finishes third in total votes, they'll finish second in seats, potentially even having a plurality. You have a nice political system.
As I've said, don't believe UNS. Its simplistic, according to UNS if Labour were to get 0 votes they'd still win seats. BS. UNS doesn't work when there are 3 parties and its a bad seat model, all other seat models put the results more 'fairly'. Although the LDs do suffer by being common second-placers, up to a point. Were they to become more popular it starts to work in their favour, after about 38% you could start to get a Lib-Dem plurality/majority.
Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
Is there any particular reason you have 650 MPs by the way? That's about 7 times more representation per capita than the US.
Tory policy is to cut it by 10%.

As a guess, I'd say because the Commons is both legislature and executive.