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Originally Posted by danielf
I find it quite funny how people keep harping on about Labour in the 70s and Thatcher in the 80s. Under Coalition governments this sort of stuff is virtually unheard of as all major parties will collaborate with each other at some point, and perceptions just aren't as black and white. Politics in the UK seems to revolve around trotting out old negative cliches about the other parties rather than emphasising the strengths of the own party. Much of it is just tribal rhetoric which you get a lot less of with the consensus-based politics that you get with coalition governments. Whether UK politicians are capable of changing their mindset to one of cooperating in a constructive manner remains to be seen though.
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Coalition governments however tend to
collapse when they can't agree which can cause rather
regular elections.
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Originally Posted by Damien
I agree. It's absurd that a party who wins an election with 36% of the vote is given a disproportionate licence to run the country in which ever way it sees fit, ignoring the other 64% who did not want that party to govern them.
The amount of rubbish Labour has managed to pass that could have been prevented in a system in which they did not have the power to pass what they want is depressing. Our laws would be much fairer, sensible, and effective if they were achieved via consensus with the majority party having to make concessions to others.
The Tory press needs to stop harping on about Hitler or how PR would cause national meltdown.
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Please understand I agree with much of what you say, however I am absolutely convinced that in the short term a coalition will fail to achieve enough at a time when it's essential that progress is made towards longer term prosperity and encouraging the private sector to return to generating the wealth (and in turn tax revenues!) we so badly need right now along with reducing the public sector's hunger for that wealth.