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Originally Posted by MarkC1984
Every other major news item gets a thread, so thought why not have a thread about the election?
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Because it's not for 3 1/2 months yet, and everyone will be sick of it by March?
I'll be running official opinion poll threads during the three weeks immediately prior to the election itself, plus an exit poll on election day, as I did in 2010 and 2005 (10 years ago!
). This thread will do for general discussion for the time being.
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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
A representative system can have anomalies over the national figures but is far better than a national PR system that simply gets the least unpopular in and blocks ability to vote for a candidate, local party/independent.
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That's certainly true. Here in Scotland we are suffering a nationalist "government" which has an additional fig leaf of legitimacy thanks to its overall majority of MSPs. A lot of people don't even realise that they achieved this, despite the PR voting system, on no more than 45% of the popular vote, thanks to the limitations of the system in use.
Personally I think a two party system, with mass membership and a genuine influence over policy, candidate selection and recall is inherently more democratic than a fractured system of single interest pressure groups doing coalition deals behind closed doors, the inevitable consequence of which is a programme for government that nobody voted for.