[lbo-talk] UK election exit polls (Whatever happened to the Liberal Democrats?)

[Wendy Lyon]

On 07/05/2010, Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  What we've seen is further confirmation of how third parties, even major ones like the Liberal Democrats, are snuffed out on election day in first-past-the-post voting systems.

The plus side to this is that the BNP didn't win any seats in
Westminster (and lost a lot of its councillors). With proportional
representation it would have won about a dozen.