Chris

It’s amazing how much a majority partner will give to a minor party from the lunatic fringe on order to stay in power though. In Scotland we were saddled with Green Party MSPs in government for several years and it has been an utter disaster. Even the SNP isn’t stupid enough to have stuck with it for too long but they are now left unpicking a series of completely bat-turd crazy policies like banning log burning stoves in new houses, even in remote rural areas far from mains gas and reliable electricity; massive no-fishing zones that would have devastated entire coastal communities; a bottle return scheme with berserker-level recycling requirements that were simply unworkable; and, not forgetting, the gender-woo-woo nonsense that is now slowly being unpicked by the UK Supreme Court.

UK devolution is, all told, a massive advert against proportional representation of any kind. All it does is shackle reasonably sensible mainstream parties to utter loonies.