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Originally Posted by Pierre
It’s moot point, PR was rejected in 2011 anyway, but I just found it amusing, as when it’s your team that wins ……..it’s fine that only a third of the country voted for them.
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I do wonder by the 2028/9 election whether PR could end up back on the agenda in manifestos. Ultimately it wouldn't be voted for again until 2031 and implemented at least until the 2033/4 general election.
If Farage is serious about it - and I don't think he is - FPTP creates really distorted results in a 4 party system. It has always created distorted results in a three party system just ones that I think people lived with because it gave the most popular party a working majority at any given time.
However if a sizeable number of people (as it hits 50% for example) are voting for someone who isn't the
Conservatives or Labour that willingness to tolerate it will break down.