Rorting democracy
While today’s news is letting us know about the latest failure of capitalism, over in WA we can see another failure in our political system, that thing that is supposed to represent the will of the people. The breakdown of the popular vote shows that the Greens polled over 11% of the vote yet they have exactly zero members in the new legislature. On the other hand the National Party who collected less than 5% of the vote end up increasing there representation to 4. It is no wonder that governments and entrenched oppositions both resist calls for proportional representation, they would all lose out. This way it is merely the voice of the people that is being ignored.