THE Tory party makes many claims for “good governance” and being for the “nation’s good” but yet again these are proved to be false.

David Cameron took a gamble for political gain and lost, and now Theresa May has done exactly the same thing and lost.

How can we trust them to run the country when their sole aim is to gain political power?

It is claimed many times that we live in a representative democracy.

This is just not true. What we have in fact is a democratically elected two-party dictatorship. The two main parties with all the power and financial strength (just look at what the Tory party spent on the campaign compared to other parties) vie with each other to gain control.

Once in power they then claim they have a “democratic” mandate to do whatever they want and just push forward their ideological plans. This does not represent the views of a huge chunk of the electorate.

Look at the situation following this election. We now have an unstable government in a poor position to carry out the hugely important “Brexit” negotiations. The DUP got 0.9 per cent of the overall vote, ten MPs and a big say in government.

The Green Party and Ukip got 1.6 per cent and 1.8 per cent of the overall vote, one MP and no say at all.

How representative is that?

Any wonder that so many people are put off politics and voting?

Many countries around the world successfully use a proportional representation voting system. Here it is often claimed that these lead to weak and unstable governments. As we have seen, our present system is quite capable of doing that.

Of course some of the most strident opponents of alternative systems are those in the two main parties who are so desperate to keep their hands firmly gripped on political power. If both the Tories and Labour were really serious about having a government that was both stable and representative then they must push for serious changes to our broken system.

Glyn Wild, Swinton, Malton