Evenly Split

Is the Conservative Party about to split? How few people can constitute a "split"? No one would vote for it, anyway. And they know it. 

The realignment happened last year. Britain is evenly split between those who do, and those who do not, approve of the economic changes of the last 40 years. Britain is evenly split between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn. 

We always knew that. But now the party system reflects it. Well, it does outside the House of Commons, anyway. But that is a detail, which can easily be corrected.

Removing the 117 Trump Republicans and the 172 Clinton Democrats, if there are still that many, will be a quick and easy process of deselection. After all, of whom are they supposed to be representative? 

117 out of 650 MPs are at the intersection of people who would vote for Donald Trump and people who would vote for Marine Le Pen. Are there 11 million people like that in Britain today? Who are they? Where are they?

And 172 out of 650 MPs, or at least not very far off that number, are at the intersection of people who would vote for Hillary Clinton and people who would vote for Emmanuel Macron. Are there 16 million people like that in Britain today? Who are they? Where are they?

Breakaway parties are doomed in Britain, not because of the electoral system, but because people do not want to vote for them. They would not vote for them under a different electoral system, either.

But they do elect hung Parliaments even under this electoral system, because that is what they want.

Therefore, another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. I will stand for this parliamentary seat of North West Durham, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign.

By common consent, Labour, the Conservatives and I are each on 30 per cent support, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.