I suppose that's right. I was merely reflecting my jade upon the current situation. Sure if there was a party that conformed with my own political requirements, and it was making movement, then a PR system should aid it.

Well, looks like LibDem didn't do as well as most people had hoped. And the freaking tories win the elections, too.

The popular vote/seats division was pretty fucked up again:

Popular vote

Conservatives 36,2 %
Labour 29 %
Liberal Democrats 23 %

Seats summary

Conservatives 288
Labour 241
Liberal Democrats 51

doesn't make any sense. Labour gets 6 % more votes than LibDem but effectively wins 5 times (!!) as many seats in parliament. It's almost arbitrary.

Happy the greens won their first seat, even if they're still dwarfed by marginal local parties like Sinn Féin (4 seats), Democratic Unionist (8) and Plaid Cymru (3). LibDem's popular vote result was over 20 times as large as that of for example the Democratic Unionists but only have 5 times their seats. Bizarre.

I don't exactly follow all this stuff (as far as I'm concerned they're all greedy bastards out for their own ends who'll lie to get into power then do exactly fuck all) but I'm fairly sure LibDems weren't actually expected to do much better than they did anyway. I think the real surprise was that tories didn't outright win and labour just die on their arse. The whole system is screwy anyway *shrug*