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Well we kind of do actually.
Alternative vote is just what they called it but it was going to be single transferable vote.
So let's run a mock election, You've got the same old parties that we've currently got, Greens, Labour, Lib Dem (for some reason), Conservatives, Reform
So let's say I vote as follows;
1 Greens.
2 Labour.
3 Lib Dems.
I don't vote for the conservatives or reform.
Let's say the greens get knocked out, so my vote transfers to labour. The Lib Dems also get knocked out so my vote stays with labour, on the other side the conservative votes get knocked out and they go to reform. So it's now Reform vs Labour - regardless of who wins it's still going to be one party that was voted for by a minority of the population in power and controlling the lives of a bunch of people who didn't vote for them, not just people that would have preferred to have someone else, people who explicitly did not vote for them. The system is still inherently unfair.
Ultimately it's still going to be a left-wing party or a right-wing party in charge, and those people are going to completely ignore the desires and interests of the other group. Just as they do now.
The only system that guarantees cooperation and mutual compromise is Proportional Representation. The extremist attitude of my way or the highway will just not work under that system. Sure we will get some reform idiots in power, but they are in power right now anyway and at least under proportional representation if they're not willing to compromise and work with other people (which they won't), they won't be able to do anything.