Actor Steve Coogan and presenter Carol Vorderman have backed Liberal Democrat pledges to reform how the UK’s general elections are run.

  • Simon Lucy@mastodon.social
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    9 months ago

    @theinspectorst @i_am_not_a_robot @Syldon @jonne

    You can’t translate it into UK terms, there’s around 4M voters in Ireland, 41M in the UK across 4 countries with greater disparity in density of populations and geographical size.

    The average size of constituencies is 73k, so you agree with me that the future size would be around 250k. How is that local representation to a National Parliament?

    There would have to be party lists to fudge it into a general proportional result across the Union.