They'll cross out Sunak and Truss on their ballot papers and vote Boris back in.:hehe:
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They'll cross out Sunak and Truss on their ballot papers and vote Boris back in.:hehe:
I suppose one benefit of the Tories veering further to the right is that there's more middle ground for Labour to mop up, even with the inept Starmer. I genuinely feel that there are some who feel that Britain is now a right wing country, particularly after Brexit, but it's not true at all. Theresa May couldn't get an overall majority against Corbyn. Johnson, the class clown, appealed to lots of people, not because he was a Tory, but because he'd spent years creating his image on TV. There's nobody in the Conservative Party capable of wooing the electorate like Johnson. Sadly, there are few elsewhere in any party capable of it, either.
The Tories sometimes manage to pull 4 out of 10 voters and that's enough as the opposition is divided .
That still means that 6 out of 10 people who vote don't vote Tory
So if the tory stranglehold on power is to be loosened we need a decent labour party, a decent liberal party or a united opposition .
Proportional representation is an electoral system in which the distribution of seats corresponds closely with the proportion of the total votes cast for each party. For example, if a party gained 40% of the total votes, a perfectly proportional system would allow them to gain 40% of the seats.
This would mean that lots of constituencies in a general election would be represented by an MP who failed to gain the most votes.
Would that be an acceptable scenario in your constituency?
Constituencies would have to change. PR would have a ripple effect right through the political system.
We could be into bigger constituencies backed up by regional lists for top-up MPs to achieve proportionality, or any of dozens of other models in use around the world that have been designed to achieve PR.
What can't work is 650 constituencies that operate just like now but with 'allocated MPs' from some national PR machine.
Although as others have said in most constituencies the sitting MP who 'represents the area' and does all the casework was not voted in by the majority of the electors.
I would certainly accept it over the current system. One overarching benefit is that PR would tend to exclude more extremist policies from either side of the Great Divide.
I think there is a better than fair chance this approach would result in more pragmatic politics better suited to tackle challenging issues.
Back in 2019:
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Tories had 70 more seats that they would have done under ‘simple’ P.R.
Labour had 14 fewer.
Lib Dems were the party with the most to gripe about, given the share of their vote. However many of these votes cast for Lib Dems were probably protest votes i.e. anything but Tory or Labour.
Ditto for ‘Green’ voters.
SNP got more than they ‘deserved’.
The ‘rest’ are largely insignificant in terms of making an argument for P.R.
So basically 45% voted Tory and 45% voted Labour / Lib Dem.
Not sure whether P.R. would be that much fairer.
Chaos would ensue?
We will never have pr in this country
It helps out the liberals and others who get a fair amount of support yet few seats
The liberals went in with the Tories for a chance of a form of pr but the country wasn't even interested in getting off its arse to vote
I think even the labour party campaigned against pr ?
I can't stand corbyn and his gang in the same way I don't mind moderate Tories like the Ken Clarke of twenty years ago
John Major was a moderate fella too
If we could have a centrist party with liberal social policy it would get my vote
I thought the defection of a few liberal , tory and Labour mps with that chukka ummuna was the start but it was a damp lettuce
Labour was officially, if half-heartedly, in support of a change to the Alternative Vote system, but the party was completely split internally. The most high profile Labour people campaigned (with the Tories) to keep First Past The Post.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56435341