on the Telegraph comment section

 "The SNP emerges the largest party from the Scottish Parliament elections but Nicola Sturgeon is forced to form a minority government after she falls short of another majority."



What is it about the Scottish Electoral system that many English fail to understand?



The Scottish Parliament is DESIGNED from the ground up to *intentionally* make minority governments. It's purpose is to allow all who are elected to have a voice, and encourage cooperation between the parties.



Each person gets two votes, one constitutional, one regional. There is a threshold for how many members a party can have in parliament.. if one party (member per region) gets too many votes they are 'Disused'.

In the 2016 Scottish Election, the SNP got 1,059,897 const. votes and 953,587 regional votes.. they also had 708,051 disused regional votes; coming *first* across *every* regional area of Scotland and lost 12 seats and gained no seats.



see here for more info: https://scotspol.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-scottish-electoral-system-in-action.html



No other party comes remotely close to those numbers. The *only* other party to have disused regional votes was the Scottish Conservatives at around 20,000. So 20,000 is a decent number.. but 708,051 is overwhelming support; for both policy and ideal.



The SNP are *loved* in Scotland.



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Seeing how a parliament *should* be run, should give the English ideas.

The 'Tudor Reenactment Club' of Westminster, is as Mhairi Black told us, a joke.



Westminster, London, The South East of England.. with varying degrees, suck up money and spit out poverty.



If a building cost £100,000 elsewhere, and the English (UK) Government pay £1,000,000 for it to be in London .. where did that £900,000 come from? That's right.. the poor, the average worker, the middle classes. Was it value for money? no.. because you could have bought ten of them, or better still pay 1000 people with disabilities for a year to stop them killing themselves.