Eric Pickles Can't Say England Either

In the following video the Conservative Party Chairman, Eric Pickles, tells you this:

At the 2005 General Election, we got 8,115,000 votes. The Labour Party got 8,050,400 votes. Under AV, despite the Conservatives polling more votes, Labour would have more MPs in Parliament. We don't need to change the voting system, we need to change this deeply discredited and pointless government.

Pickles is wrong. At the 2005 General Election the Conservatives received 8,772,598 votes and Labour won with 9,562,122. The figures that Pickles quotes are for England alone. But of course he won't say "England" because he doesn't need to. This video was shown on the Conservatives website, and as we know everything that you see on the Conservative website by default applies to England alone.

It's interesting to note that taking the English figures that Pickles quotes, the Conservatives still got fewer MPs in England, and that was under First Past the Post.

Hat-tip: TanktheTories