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Originally Posted by Nondescript Human
The Alliance got many more votes than the Lib Dems do today if I remember correctly, but they were royally screwed by the electoral system. It's hard to consider the UK a proper democracy when our current Prime Minister derives his mandate from the votes of 21% of the electorate (who of course voted for a party led by someone else entirely).
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In fairness it's hardly like 22% voted for someone else and they just got screwed out of government by some moronic system.
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Originally Posted by UN
So, because they've not been in government for the last 200 years, they can claim the moral high ground in any issue regarding competance as they've no past record that they feel obligated to defend?
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They've only existed for about 20 years. However one of the two parties which merged to form the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal party, was in power for extended periods of time during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
PS I find it rather bizzare how the UK doesn't use PR. Christ knows if Ireland used FPP we'd have some sort of fascist Fianna Fail tyranny in place by now.