I should point out that left-wing governments and parties tend to increase governments interference in peoples daily lives. So it's anti personal rights in the face of business, or personal rights limited by how the government wants you to behave.
Anyway this whole arguent is vaguely academic, because we only have an approximation of democracy anyway:
Seats in parliments, decide which party form the government. Each seat represents an area of the country and its population. Governments (and certian civil servants) decide, and can change, the size and boundaries (and hence make up) of the voting area for each seat. Hence governments (and certian civil servants) can to an extent control the number of seats a party wins.
For example in this election the electoral role in seats Labour won was smaller than in seats that the Tories or Lib Dems one. So you can conclude that those areas who have strong traditional Labour support get to decide more seats (and have a greater effect on the outcome) than those that support the other party. So effectively Labour won by making it's votes worth more. Hence why labour has over a 100 more seats that the conservatives with only 3-4% more of the vote.
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Date: 2005-05-09 08:04 am (UTC)Anyway this whole arguent is vaguely academic, because we only have an approximation of democracy anyway:
Seats in parliments, decide which party form the government. Each seat represents an area of the country and its population. Governments (and certian civil servants) decide, and can change, the size and boundaries (and hence make up) of the voting area for each seat. Hence governments (and certian civil servants) can to an extent control the number of seats a party wins.
For example in this election the electoral role in seats Labour won was smaller than in seats that the Tories or Lib Dems one. So you can conclude that those areas who have strong traditional Labour support get to decide more seats (and have a greater effect on the outcome) than those that support the other party. So effectively Labour won by making it's votes worth more. Hence why labour has over a 100 more seats that the conservatives with only 3-4% more of the vote.