Thread: More gloom for Brown - Tories win by-election
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Old 25-07-2009, 00:12   #10
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Re: More gloom for Brown - Tories win bye election
Come next year when the general election is held, our crappy "first past the post" system will once again elect a party with minority support from the electorate.
As far as I'm aware no party has ever got more than 50% of the vote since the war, yet this somehow gives whoever it is a mandate to govern over the majority!!
PR would not only be a far more democratic way of electing our leaders, but also it would help introduce a more consensual form of politics in the UK, instead of the current school-yard confrontational bun fight we presently have.
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