Can two minorities make a majority?

Over the past 60 years, along with some 58 million other subjects of Her Majesty, you've sat quietly while the UK has become the fiefdom* of numerous factions that have just one thing in common: they are all minorities.

The nadir of "democracy" in the British Isles occurred at the 2005 General Election, when despite polling a considerable minority of English votes, one party was awarded the majority of English seats!

The conundrum of the 2010 result has moved the game along quite considerably, and whilst on the face of it we have a unique moment of "majority" government, the UK is now transparently and officially the  fiefdom of two minorities.

However, the coalition formed within the Westminster and Media "bubble" is still woefully out of touch, and now increasingly rudderless. The surprise arrival of George Galloway suggests that the people are thinking that "he couldn't really be any worse", and this may well encourage a flood of alternatives to the "tedious three" main parties.    

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So if the future of politics is now a procession of witless clones who have barely done a real days work between them, then the only sustainable answer is to adopt a more transparent policy where referendums/referenda (you pick) become the way ahead for all major decisions.

Although our archaic voting system is little changed since the days of Dick Turpin, and seems to suit the status quo, the reality is that technology makes this trivial, as TV shows have proved.

There are interesting times ahead.

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