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					Originally Posted by Mr K  Well that's our 'Parliamentary democracy' for you old chap   | 
	
 Er no, that’s our simple majority electoral system for you (aka ‘first past the post’, although that’s meaningless in the context of a single constituency by-election).
Our power structure, in which Parliament is sovereign, would still be the same if constituencies used a proportional voting system.