Quote Originally Posted by pipster View Post
But it is the only metric that counts - you win the seat or you dont.
We had a PR referendum - and that was lost as well.

Maybe if David and Ed's older brother was leader there may have been a different outcome.
You began this by talking about who wanted Corbyn (only lefty nutters and London champaign drinkers I think you said?) so measures of popular support seem to be the most relevant response to your point.

Of course in FPTP the number of seats won is the crucial metric - but a party can win more seats with a lower % of the popular vote than a rival party - so seats won is not the way to measure popular support.

So in 2019 Corbyn achieved the worst Labour result since 1935, or the third worst (and second best) since 2005. Both are true. Still lost though!