
George Browning
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George Browning
@FeldonForest
Organic farmer with solar PV and BMWi3 electric car (BEV). Interest in organic farming, renewables, energy storage and electric vehicles.



















You really need to check things, Larry. The combined percentage vote share of Con+UKIP in 2015 was 49.5%. The total vote share for Lab+SNP+Lib Dem+Green was 46.8%, so even if they'd managed to concoct a back-room negotiation between the four parties (highly unlikely), they wouldn't have had the numbers to form a government. In contrast, a Con+UKIP coalition would have been far easier to negotiate. UKIP would have almost certainly made it conditional on an EU referendum, which, as we know, happened anyway. The SNP got 8.6% of the seats for 4.7% of the vote, by the way, so it was massively overrepresented proportional to national vote share. UKIP, in contrast, gained 0.1% of the seats for their 12.6% share of the national vote share and were by far the hardest done by, thanks to FPTP.



Fiat’s electric 500 is my favourite small EV. Now with a £3k Fiat grant, prices from £25 to £28k. Pretty, fun to drive, brisk, plenty of kit, and won lots of awards. I rate it as one of the world’s best city EVs. @FIAT_UK @FullyChargedShw @fairchargeuk





















