Nobby Cybergoat
Well-known member
- Jul 19, 2021
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I like you, have spent my adult life defending the positives of our current electoral system. That it provides certain governments, you avoid backroom deals and that you avoid the need to reach agreement on what the alternative would look like.Any coalition government of left or right would need the collaboration of parties from the far left and far right, respectively. This could very easily put an extremist into the cabinet. It is how it works in Israel.
But if you want to risk it, and imagine PR would deliver us a hegemony of fluffy centrist governments, with perhaps some new parties such as New Conservative, and New Labour, holding hands and singing Kumbaya with some Greens and Liberals, fill your boots. Campaign away.
You can mock me all you like for backing PR. You can come back and say 'told you so' when the system is changed to PR. You may have to hold a séance to get in touch with me, though
But I was wrong. FPTP has given allowed the biggest bunch of clowns in modern political history to govern near unchallenged for as long as I can remember. I'm sick of it and any backroom deal struck between Labour, the SNP, the Lib Dems and whoever can't produce worse results or a greater sense of paralysis than we currently have now