AN ELECTION RIGGED

No doubt there will be some wrangles over irregularities in the postal ballots - when there was no need to change from the previous system. No doubt there will be much less attention paid to the effect of the change in the system of postal ballots for servicemen, which led to a substantial reduction in the numbers voting, or the denial of any votes for many ex-patriots due to yet another change in the rules.

There is even less attention paid to the Boundary Commission’s failure to update the constituency boundaries which means that Labour needs far fewer votes to win an MP and so far fewer votes to win an overall majority. Labour has a large majority of 65 despite only achieving 36% of the vote, against 33% for the Conservatives. Labour has won 355 MPs while the Conservatives have only 197.

But the stark fact remains that Labour has no legitimate democratic mandate to govern England at all.

The system of devolution, which the Conservatives have happily accepted, has led to the present outcome where Labour lost the election in England and is totally dependent on Scottish and Welsh MPs for the illegitimate majority in the House of Commons.

In England, the Conservatives got 8,086,306 votes, and Labour had just 8,028,512.

Moreover Labour’s 65 seat majority has to be set against the fact that there are 40 MPs from Wales, of whom 29 are Labour, and another 59 from Scotland, of whom 41 are Labour. Without those 70 Scottish and Welsh Labour MPs, Labour is in a minority.

This scandalous situation means that Labour has managed to manipulate the constitution and voting system in order to undermine democracy, and enable itself to cling on to office. It will thereby impose a socialist state on England against the wishes and interests of the English people.

This cannot be allowed to continue. We demand an English parliament to represent English interests NOW.