 Dear Americans, we have a funny system here. It's called first past the post. We have 650 seats in the UK Parliament. We have an opportunity to vote for our local MP. Each constituency is fought over by the various different parties. The one who gets the most votes is the first past the post and gets the job. The person who gets to the magic number of seats, that is, constituencies in the UK, becomes the government. He tends to get one party that runs everything as a result of that. But they have to have a sufficiently strong majority. Winner takes all and it's not as good as the French.