Brexit -am I stupid or what

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    I'm no mathematician, but even I can work out that Scotland has more MPs in Parliament than its population suggests.:smile:
     
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      @pete ,
      These are the actual figures for MP's /constituencies for the whole of the UK ..........

      England........ 533
      Scotland......... 59
      Wales............. 40
      N.I.................... 18

      Total no....... 650

      Now if going by your reckoning of 20% then Scotland would have 130 seats , way over the 59 ( approx 9% ) it does.
       
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        Thanks @KFF , I was going on @Fat Controller figures of 129, not sure where he got that one from?
         
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          I've just looked it up and apparently there are 129 seats in the SCOTTISH parliament:biggrin:
           
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            I'd have sworn it was 129 seats, however it appears that I got that wholly wrong - it is 59 according to Wikipedia. My apologies.

            On the upside, that makes it even less possible that the wee nyaff would ever be in a position of power in the UK parliament.

            What is very interesting is if you look at the results from the 2017 GE for Scotland -
            • Scottish National Party: 977,569 (36.9%)
            • Conservatives: 757,949 (28.6%)
            • Labour: 717,007 (27.1%)
            • Liberal Democrats: 179,061 (6.8%)
            • Green Party: 5,886 (0.2%)
            • UK Independence Party: 5,302 (0.2%)
            • Others: 6,921 (0.3%)

            So less Scottish people voted for the SNP than voted to leave the EU (1,018,322)!
             
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              Ah, that is what I get for firing something off from the hip from memory, sorry @pete
               
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                Yes, thanks for the correction @KFF .:blue thumb:

                But as @Fat Controller shows the numbers never seem to stack up in any elections, we always end up with the party with the minority of votes being in power:scratch:
                 
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                And, don't forget that the Wicked Witch of Scotland will never be at Westminster herself because although being the SNP leader she has never stood as a Parliamentary Candidate.
                 
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                  Kind of puts her on a Par with Farage then :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                   
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                    Sorry @pete, you've done it again.....

                    The party with the greatest number of votes won......

                    Con........ 13,636,684
                    Lab........ 12,878,460
                    L.D......... 2,371,910
                    SNP........ 977,569
                     
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                    This will be my first time voting in Scotland. What a great choice I've got. :whistle: In fact this is the first time I've been able to vote in 27 years - oh joy! :biggrin:
                     
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                      Yeah but if you add the ones that didn't win up they are the greater, the system is busted.
                       
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                        Sorry Pete, that doesn't make sense.

                        For example that's like saying the best selling record isn't number 1 because the rest of the top 10 sold more when added together.
                         
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                          Just saying that your MP will be from another party even if the one you wanted lost by one vote.
                           
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                            We need to get rid of the system we have now and go for proportional representation.

                            If we had had that Brexit would have been solved, one way or the other 2 yrs ago.
                             
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