Chris

You can huff and puff all you like ... at the end of the day the view you're expressing is just typical of a certain constituency on the British Left, that likes democracy until it produces the 'wrong' result, then anything goes.

To suggest there is any possibility whatsoever of the UK experiencing the same sort of violence, for the same sorts of reasons, is a desperately immature excuse for political analysis. Either that or it's a disturbing piece of wishful thinking.

If you don't like coalition politics, the most constructive democratic thing you can do is vote against AV in the referendum next month, because proportional systems, even ones that are only ever so slightly proportional like AV, lead to more frequent and more complex coalitions.