·"The time has come for real, genuine, radical political reform," Nigel Farage said after losing his bid to take Thanet South from the Conservatives.
·The UKIP leader had increased his party's share of the vote in the seat by 27%, and nationally UKIP's vote share was up by 10 percentage points to a total of 3.9 million.
·Still, the party won just one constituency under the UK's first-past-the-post voting system.
·The Greens' ambitions were similarly thwarted: they won more than a million votes but just one seat.
JMC:The British people do not deserve the heavy burden of punishment and financial ruin placed upon them in error and ignorance as dished up by British government, in the following departments, horseracing, political, and legal government, as has been the case over the last 6 decades.AsNigel Farage puts it here "The time has come for real, genuine, radical political reform." We have here a male government situation rotten to the very core, left to get worse and worse every day that passes, left ongoing over the last 6 decades to get worse and worse, still, to this very day. David Cameron is not the man to put such as this right, as neither is government man Nick Rust. It is no use Cameron pretending that he can put such as this in horseracing, right, either, he wouldn't have a clue, as neither has Rust. This whole situation has been allowed to grow into a massively cruel male government scandal of huge significance. It is directly to do with basic human rights being ignored in Britain and in the wider world. To include the human rights of the horses.
"The time has come for real, genuine, radical political reform," Nigel Farage said after losing his bid to take Thanet South from the Conservatives.
The UKIP leader had increased his party's share of the vote in the seat by 27%, and nationally UKIP's vote share was up by 10 percentage points to a total of 3.9 million.
Still, the party won just one constituency under the UK's first-past-the-post voting system.
The Greens' ambitions were similarly thwarted: they won more than a million votes but just one seat.
The Electoral Reform Society, a campaign group, has modelled what would have happened under a proportional voting system that makes use of the D'Hondt method of converting votes to seats.
The Conservatives would have won 75 fewer seats but would still have been the largest party in the Commons. Labour too would have taken fewer seats.
The SNP's dramatic increase in seats of 50 would have been curtailed to 25.
But UKIP, the Lib Dems and the Greens would have fared much better.
UKIP would have been a force to be reckoned with in the Commons with 83 seats.
Mr Farage has not yet declared which of the many alternative voting systems he would favour, but any more proportional system would be likely to give him and other smaller parties a boost.
The contrasting fortunes of the different parties in Westminster under first past the post are made clear by looking at the number of votes won for each winning candidate.
UKIP required more than 100 times as many votes for its lone elected MP than the Conservatives did for each of theirs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32601281
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