Rob Blackie on Challenging Sadiq Khan, London Politics & His Career | Jamie McCreedy Interview

As a Liberal Democrat politician, I want you to try and be honest with me.

Now, I know politicians often try and beat around the bush.

Who is going to win the next general election? Because there are so many parties on the front line.

But as a Liberal Democrat, who do you think?

Anybody could.

And this is my honest opinion.

If you look at the elections around London we've just had, my wife got elected to land of council in a ward where the votes split almost perfectly three ways.

Basically three parties on 30% of the votes give or take a few votes.

That is increasingly happening all over the place with three, four or five parties in contention.

There was someone in Cornwall last year where somebody got elected for council on 19% of the vote.

So 81% of the people who turned up to vote voted against them and they still won.

And that's making it really unpredictable.

And we've really got a lot of parties clustered between sort of 12 and 25% right now.

That means really quite small things can make a very big difference.

So I think nobody has any idea.

The truth is that reflects the public are becoming more open-minded over time about who they vote for.

It used to be most people voted Labour or Conservatives, and they voted that way their whole of their lives.

And if they'd switched, they only switched between those two parties.

Our electoral system worked moderately well at that point because it wasn't too bad.

I think our system is now breaking down.

We're going to have to change our system.

And that's going to mean we've really got a much more European form of politics.

If you can look at this year's London elections, where a lot of councils are hung councils.

um you know i live in lambeth it's no overall control they just had a meeting a week ago today and at that meeting the greens won the vote to become the leadership of the council but then they had a vote on how much they should pay themselves and they lost that vote to a collaboration between labour and the liberal democrats and then They had a vote on whether or not they should mark their own homework, running one of the committees in the council.

And we lost that vote too.