Electoral collage: If I want to get elected, which party should I join?
Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!
Dennis: (laughingly) Listen: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
It is possible to attach a probability to having a scimitar lobbed at one by a moistened bink. Since it has only happened once, it’s about one in 227,165,742 or 0.000000004%, though it’s tricky to calculate exactly how many people have ever lived in a country. Based on the 2010 UK General Election, each of the 3,720 candidates had a 17.5% chance of getting a seat, about one in six, and certainly better odds than in an autocracy. However, the chances were considerably better for the two biggest parties: 48% of Conservatives and 41% of Labour candidates. The Liberal Democrats had 9% of their people elected despite being just 6% behind Labour in the popular vote. Indeed, outside the two main parties just 3.5% of candidates got elected. As part of their coalition negotiations, the Lib Dems got a referendum on the Alternative Vote method, which was not passed. Oh well.
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