Voter turnout  in  the recent election was the lowest since the introduction of universal adult suffrage in 1928.With a mere 35% of the votes cast Labour took approximately   66% of the seats.
  This year all constituencies were contested. I make this point to avoid confusion
   with historical circumstances  which involved non-contested seats.
 
 Twice in Ireland under the Union, the Nationalists, and once Republicans, took 73 of      the country’s 105 Parliamentary with 47% or thereabouts of the votes cast. The Unionists did not contest seats which they could not win. 
 
  Charlatan academics and and other chancers have for nearly 106 years sought
  to invalidate the Republican Mandate of 1918, although THE TIMES conceded that
  all parties looked on the Election as a plebiscite,
 
But back to the recent election, where the Labour Party won less votes and a lesser
proportion of the votes cast than it did when led by Jeremy Corbyn. Even Sir Keir
Starmer won more votes under Corbyn’s Leadership.
 
This time the predestined chronic loser Corbyn, in competition with Labour led by
 his all-conquering successor retained the seat he has held for 40 years.
 
Surely a freak election has created a Rum Parliament?
 
Donal Kennedy
LONDON