Ian Dunt

Yeah, it's also partly a result of the thing I was telling you about as well, which is as a political party, you're just trying to get the most effective geographical distribution of your vote and trying not to get too many surplus votes in any particular seat because it's wasted resources.

Then one of the ways that happens is tactical voting, just like you're a lefty.

You have to think, who's going to win here?

You know, my main aim is stopping the Conservative Party from winning.

Do I really care whether it's the Lib Dems or Labour or the Greens?

Probably not.

And so you pick whichever party is most likely to do it.

And in some seats, like where I grew up, it's really obvious that that's the Liberal Democrats.

In some seats, it's really obvious that that's Labour.

But in a lot of seats...

it's not obvious which party it is.

And so the danger of that system is you get really split, particularly progressive voting.

You know, you'll get 30% for Labour, 30% for the Greens, 35% for the Conservatives, right?

And even though in that constituency there is a clear majority that are progressive voters, the minority Conservative Party can get in simply because they're monopolising one side of the vote.

It's a really dangerous and very, very irrational way to organise your democracy.

Ian, over here.

The liberal thing is very annoying to me.

Having written a book called How To Be A Liberal, it's very frustrating to me that they've used that word for the party.

Liberalism is the belief in the freedom of the individual.

And the distinction between it and most other political ideologies is that that is an instruction on how to think, but not what to think.