Oh, come on, Dick. We have had innumerable discussions over the years on these threads about how our constituency-based electoral system never produces a statistical majority government ~~ but literally never: I don't think a single instance was ever produced in argument, the nearest being the post WWii Labour lot which that fool Cripps ruined and brought down in short order at the next-but-one election, which had a nearly 50% showing in overall election votes cast nationwide. That just happens to be how our electoral system works, and any referendum, or other sort of attempt to replace it with PR or whatever, has failed every time. I could produce statistics similar to yours above to prove that "one can conclude from that that more people voted for the other 2 parties than [his] party,that is how the electoral system divides and rules, it shows that more people did not want [insert name of any British PM] as prime minister than actually wanted [him]".

I know this. You know this, for all your saying. You asked for facts. I gave you facts. I appreciate they were facts uncongenial to those on your side of the political spectrum; but facts they are nevertheless. So just accept them as such, please; and stop being so silly. You are making a fool of yourself in your endeavours to prove the unprovable. The main FACT, little as you may like it, is that, until she cocked up over the Council Tax, Margaret Thatcher was probably the most popular PM overall in British history, and her election record demonstrates it. Sorry if this meets with the disapproval of the great and distinguished Richard Miles. But such, as any unbiased observer must observe, are the FACTS.

BTW, re ollaimh's post above - Those like Richard who use 'bitch' of her, which assonates so well with 'Thatcher', always seem to me to adopt a tone of "hur-hur slurp" as they do so that always gives me the impression that they are typing it one-handed: it really does seem to do it for them in the oddest fashion!

Now please be quiet, Dick, before you make yourself look even sillier.

Best wishes

~M~