Voting And Serendipity

There has been a lot of talk about the electorate voting for a hung parliament but under our ancient first past the post system that is as untrue as it is to say the voters wanted any other result. When you vote in your constituancy you vote for your MP and whether that agrees with your view on who should govern Britain you have no control over what happens all you can do is cast your vote for your prospective MP.

We each of us have just one vote to use as we please. We may not like the choices offered to us and most of us will have wasted our time even bothering to vote since in almost every seat votes against the winning candidate are more than votes for a candidate. We do not have the option of voting for a hung parliament though we seem to have ended up with that result thanks to strange results all over the country and serendipity.

For thirteen years we have had a government that listens to nobody and cared about nothing other than their own interests. It may be a little annoying not knowing who the new government will be, while these negotiations take place, but isn’t it great to see politicians talking to each other in a positive and constructive way. Lets hope it is the dawn of a new era in politics where this becomes the norm.