Thread: ID card Bill dropped
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Old 06-04-2005, 18:15   #27
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Re: ID card Bill dropped
The biggest defect of the "first past the post" voting system is it takes to big a swing to change anything, and places most of the responsibility for that change on a limited number of marginals - I'd favor straight proportional, even if it gave a few seats to extremists of all varieties... if the other parties were so deadlocked that a few cranks could call the shots, they's be 100% to blame for that situation.

It seems the best we can hope for, is a hung parliament, or one so close to it that a reasonable number of dissenters on the governing party can turn any vote that does not have all-party support.
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