Saturday, May 08, 2010
In case you're wondering
I've turned JDCMB purple because it is traditionally the colour associated with suffrage suffering, so to speak. Following the "election" there's a movement to show the strong groundswell here in favour of electoral reform, notably the end of the first-past-the-post election system in favour of proportional representation, and this afternoon there's a demo to this effect in Trafalgar Square for which people are being encouraged to wear purple. I can't go, but I'm wearing purple anyway and so is this blog! (Unfortunately I can't change anything myself in my Standpoint blog design, but I would if I could...)
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I can't quite see why you would want PR though.
Under PR, with the results from this election,
Cons would have had 236 seats, Lab 190, Lib still the third party (150)... UKIP 21 seats, and the BNP would have had 12 seats.
You are highly unlikely i any election to end up with a workable majority for any party or manifesto, and so you end up with twisted variants of policy, horse-traded in Westminster behind closed doors, badly implemented in ways across the country designed to keep special interest parties happy.
That's not good for transparent, open democracy.
FPTP may not be perfect, but at least it gives us the chance to throw the governing lot out every so many years, and try another bunch.
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