UK Politics
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What a mad system where a party that a majority of the electorate DON'T want will potentially win the seat!
Yeah, I've often felt it could be improved if we had one FOR vote and one AGAINST vote. But anything other than FPTP would be better!
I'm convinced that at this point the British are just too embarrassed to change their voting system.
It serves the powers that be well, keeps the wildest of democratic impulses in check, and the tabloids have trained the British public to resent the kinds of people who object to iniquity more than the iniquity itself.
Constituency elections in the UK are incredibly unfair and among the least representative in Europe.