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Originally Posted by Damien
Now is probably the best chance to implement such reforms. As it stands the polls suggest that the result may be the perfect example of how screwy our current system is. Labour would well come 3rd in the popular vote and be the party with the most seats. Not to mention that it is looking likely that the Liberal Democrats are likely power-brokers in the event of hung parliament and they are the largest party in favour of voting reform.
The two main parties are unlikely want to change a system skewed in their favour if they had a majority. Public pressure and the need to make concessions to the Liberal Democrats is the only environment in which I can see reforms taking place.
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Can we perhaps deal with this after the economy has been set on the right course and we aren't running nearly 400mn/day budget deficits, which isn't going to happen with the Lib Dems holding control?
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
In fact, there has been twenty-three in the UK since nineteen eighteen. So not much difference between both systems.
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How about the past 8 years, bearing in mind that terms are 4 years in the Netherlands and 5 here, and in the context of what happened last time there was a hung parliament?