Well, in 24 hours the booths will be open, after what has surely been just about the longest campaign ever. But in the whole of that time no-one has canvassed me, even though here we are voting for both an MP and the local council. Each of the parties has sent out a couple of leaflets, and that is the extent of the information. But then this is regarded as a safe seat, so my views and my vote don't really count for anything. If this were a one-off, it might just be one of those things. But in the whole of my 50-year "voting life" I have never been canvassed, probably because I have always lived in safe seats (where the result of the elections has meant that I have never felt myself represented).
Whatever we wake up to on Friday morning, will this election mark the point where there is enough public pressure to ensure that we really do have to move to an electoral system where every vote counts rather than just those in marginal seats and perhaps of multi-member constituencies, so that many more of us might be able to feel that we do have a representative in the nation's parliament (whatever the nation may turn out to be in the not-too-distant future)?
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No-one would dispute that Scotland is a country in its own right, a nation. If an overwhelming majority (say the classic two thirds) of voters voted SNP, could anyone deny the SNP the right to make a unilateral declaration to turn that clearly-defined nation into a nation-state? They won't because they'd lose too much English money!
Well as far as the voting system goes, right wingers traditionally wanted the first past the post system but now some have gone to a minority party ie. the UKIP clowns they are now moaning about the system, we had a vote about changing the electoral system not that long ago and it got massively rejected.
SNP well did we not just have an independence vote and it was rejected end of.