Proportional Representation? You would think that to gain a democratic majority you would need more than 50% of the electorate to vote for you. Not so.

I have never been democratically represented. The member of parliament for my area has always been a staunch Tory. His views are the diametric opposite from mine. Whenever I enter into correspondence with him, I get the typical meaningless politician's reply which has no value whatsoever.

The country is divided into small geographic areas called constituencies. The population within each votes for a member of parliament to represent them. Not all constituencies are home to the same amount of people. Therefore some MPs represent a lot of people. Others only represent a few. The constituencies with large populations are predominantly industrial areas where the majority are members of the so-called 'working class'. Those with small populations are predominantly countryside and commuter belt areas. These are home to landowners, farmers and professional commuters.

As a result, there are more working class people per MP representing them than there are professional class people. Professionals are therefore better represented in Parliament than labourers. It therefore requires far less than 50% of the professionals to vote in a majority government, whereas it requires far more than 50% of working class people to vote in a majority government representing them.

Not exactly what one could call democracy.