Our first past the post voting system. Instead of seats in parliament being allocated based on the proportion of the vote, the first to get to 326 MPs elected wins. In 2015 ukip got 12%of the vote and one seat.
Does the general public consider this a fair system? How easy would it be to change it?
Parker Price
most people don't care or particularly understand and buy the 'need a strong government' meme even though that means it literally rotates between party A and party B
there was a referendum pushed by the Lib Dems a few years ago for using Alternative Vote, which got virtually zero press attention and very low turnout
Luke Walker
Not really. When the libdems had the coalition with the tories, they made a PR voting referendum a condition. But when they had it, it failed largely because they put a bunch of retarded systems to choose from.
Tactical voting here is a bitch, instead of voting for who you really want, you vote for the party most likely to keep who you dont want out.
Adam Anderson
Bump.
Brayden Johnson
sounds horrible and tiresome. Those were my first posts on pol since last september. I really lost all hope. Gonna go cocoon mode now and wait till the train hits the wall
Justin Wilson
Looking at this map made me realize how easy it would be for a fascist party to rise to power if it wasn't for media attacks, the left wing pop-culture, demonetization of fascism and racialism and the FPTP system. Just take the most socially conservative 20% of Labour (basically all of old labour), the most right wing 75% of the Conservative party, and pretty much all of UKIP and you could have a clear majority for a fascist party. I think you would also get a lot of previously non-registered voters.
Owen Cox
It also enables delegitimisation. Some group is rw and can be banned as 'extremist' etc - but they win representation in parliament and its a different story.... FPTP has to go