ANOTHER one?? So much for First Past the Post delivering stable government..
Blame Quebec and the BQ. Absent them, the Commons right now would be:
Cons: 133
Lib: 63
NDP: 35
Vacant: 2
for a solid Conservative Majority in the 233 seat Commons.
FPTP does deliver stable government, provided that you do not have successful parties that only campaign for a portion of the seats. Save for Ulster, local parties have not been near as successful so far in Britain as the BQ. If the SNP regularly elected 40 MPs, the PC elected 27 MP's and the MK elected 3 MP's so that getting a majority required getting 60% of the other seats, there would be awfully few majority governments in Britain.
