In the Hands of a Few.

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I know this election covers the whole UK but......as an Englishman.....

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Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget,

For we are the people of England, that never has spoken yet.

There is many a fat farmer that drinks less cheerfully,

There is many a free French peasant

who is richer and sadder than we.

There are no folk in the whole world so hapless or so wise.

There is hunger in our bellies, there is laughter in our eyes;

You laugh at us and love us, both mugs and eyes are wet:

Only you do not know us. For we have not spoken yet.

G.K Chesterton

It has just gone 7 o'clock and the polls are open.

I shall be going down later in the day, a futile but necessary gesture.

You see here in the Beaconsfield constituency, one person does not really have one vote.

They have the equivalent of 0.029 votes.

This figure is based on the probability of the seat changing hands and its size.

(You can run your own test here)

45.91% of those who voted in Beaconsfield in 2005, did not vote for the winning candidate. Those votes counted for nothing in our First Past the Post system.

Across the country, the average UK voter has the power of 0.253 votes. That is 8.33 times more power than my vote here.

The future of the country is in the hands of a few - lucky enough to live in marginal seats.

They call this Democracy.

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