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Comment on YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes

kbal@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

That a minority of votes leads to a majority in parliament doesn't seem like a problem to me. That's just how it works, nothing wrong with that in itself. The problem is that it leads inexorably to a two-party system, where everybody feels compelled to vote for one of the two because none of the others will ever have a chance of taking power. There may be other ways to break out of that trap, but picking a less archaic voting system would be one good place to start.

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sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I agree with this, and yet British politics feels a lot more fragmented now than it used to. The Tories are likely looking at being reduced to a rump at the next GE, and Labour will probably get a kicking too, unless they smarten up their act toot sweet. Meanwhile Reform will likely gain a lot of seats (vomit) and the Greens may start to get towards double digits. And the Lib Dems will likely just keep on Lib Demming along.

I think there’s a very real chance of a proper hung parliament next time with no obvious stqble majority coalition possible:

Reform perhaps to win the most seats (although I am desperately hoping that their claimed support will not translate into as many seats as they think) and try to partner up with the Tories and maybe some of the Ulster Unionists

Labour to probably lose half their seats, and be forced to look at possible LD, Green, maybe even SNP partnerships.

And possibly neither side able to put together a working coalition that would last for very long.

In which case, FPTP would have done the opposite of the two party system and led to even more divisions! Fun! 🤪
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