The British are as stupid as we are

[Emrys]

18. OK, you're right, I was assuming more overlap with the Scottish system than there is.

(I've just been checking this out, and you saved me the bother.)

We'll still have to wait and see how everything pans out, otherwise there'd be no point in having another election!

I'd still argue that Westminster elections are radically different beasts to devolved elections.

Labour walked it in Scotland in the last General Election (with a lot of luck - 100-vote or so margins over the SNP in a number of constituencies, practically a throw of the dice), and got comprehensively trounced this time. There was more at play than Labour's unfulfilled promises and evidently useless leadership in the latest election.

BTW, I think the modified D'Hondt system as applied in Scotland leaves a lot to be desired as a PR system. and not just because it was deliberately stacked in Scotland to prevent one party, most particularly the SNP, gaining an outright majority.