Yes, pretty much every other developed nation has election results declared within a couple of days, even the close ones. The mentality is “we’ve got weeks to do this”, and so it ends up taking weeks… (View Post)

The last UK Parliamentary election for which there’s data, managed to count more than 32,000,000 votes in under 17 hours. All paper ballots with a cross in the box, counted by hand. https://electionr… (View Post)

Oh there’s a whole alternate history to be written that starts with Eric Joyce not getting in a fight in a Commons bar. We’d likely never had Corbyn, and possibly not Johnson either. The EU referendu… (View Post)

Mr Cameron proposed easing the seat shortage by 8%, but it was never enacted. (View Post)

She’s done no interviews at all in the last 40 days, and when she’s spoken at all unscripted it’s been nothing but word salad. The closest their conference got to a policy was price controls, and the… (View Post)