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    They cant have it both ways JHG. If they vote for a minor party then they were voting for a hung parliament. They did not vote for Labour any more than they voted Conservative. If they wanted a stable government then voting LD was no good. Electoraly it was the Conservatives with the mandate to form a government seeking help from third parties, a mandate by virtue of both the highest vote and highest seat count.

    This kind of thing is normal in Europe where, thanks to PR, people never actually get the government they vote for.

    That is why we must do two things:
    Keep first past the post system, and
    Rebalance our electoral system to ensure no one party is favoured overly. Reducing the number of seats, evening out the electorates in each seat and getting more frequent boundary reviews so at all elections there is no more than a 5% difference between seats.

    We will then get a higher proportion of marginal seats and, mostly, an overall majority government.

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