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The problem with the Westminster system is it does rather assume that all the parties are equally competent. When you have one party that’s utterly useless, it doesn’t really work as it just gives a free pass to the other party to do whatever.

UK Labour are currently swinging all over the place and it’s impossible to work out where they stand on anything. The issue been the Tories are so completely incapable of holding them to account. They have apparently decided that they are not keen on Trump, so at least they finally work that out.

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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
No government system works well under FPTP, that’s the problem the UK has. If parties like the Lib Dems and Greens had been getting the seats they deserve over the last 15 years, the UK would be in a very different place, politically.

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shirro@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The US should be a lesson to all of us about what happens when electoral systems are left to wither and die.

We all need electoral reform. UK and Canada probably need more democratic upper houses with proportional representation and preferential voting for their lower house and powers more like Australias. Once they are democratic they might as well be allowed to introduce legislation as well as review it.

I think Australia should do something about parties that consistently get far less seats in the lower house than their proportion of votes by introducting extra seats for them. Perhaps mixed member proportional or similar. So the two party system gets a shakeup and new parties can emerge when one is doing poorly.

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- seasiders2@aus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  @shirro @echodot we have an inequity built into the system in that each vote over, I think, 4% attracts around $4 for the party win or loss. This means a nest egg is created for the party. That same party does not have to declare where the big money came from until 12 months after the election whereas the newby must notify in near real time.
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