Good debate going here. Just a point of order re Hugo 7:
but given that the majority of the population voted Tory...
The Conservatives' 11,300,109 voters in the last election actually made up
36.8% of votes cast, around 25% of those able to vote and just 17% of the population.
Labour actually put on (increased over last time) more votes than the Tories did, but more people voted overall.
Even the Tories were surprised to have won; it's largely a result of our mad voting system. It did for UKIP and the Greens. And it was the Greens (and UKIP) that first lit the fuse on the reaction to two-faced-platitude-spouting-we're-entitled-to-it politicians that Corbyn is now making hay with.
Good debate going here. Just a point of order re Hugo 7:
The Conservatives' 11,300,109 voters in the last election actually made up
36.8% of votes cast, around 25% of those able to vote and just 17% of the population.
Labour actually put on (increased over last time) more votes than the Tories did, but more people voted overall.
Even the Tories were surprised to have won; it's largely a result of our mad voting system. It did for UKIP and the Greens. And it was the Greens (and UKIP) that first lit the fuse on the reaction to two-faced-platitude-spouting-we're-entitled-to-it politicians that Corbyn is now making hay with.
Give him a few years … it could go either way!