Just went down the shops.
On the walk there Tony Benn popped up on my music player - a speech attacking PR.
He said that one drawback of PR is that under that system we could get "a coalition government that nobody voted for."
WELL - OBVIOUS POINT - and truly amazing it is too - is that this is EXACTLY what we have now got after this last election under "FPTP".
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Even I was utterly shocked at the degree to which the prospect of a viable 3rd party in England has been annihilated.
The SDP has gone - and now so has the "Lib Dems." And hence also the Lberals or Whigs one of the oldest parties in English history.
ONE reason of course is the disappearance of the Labour Party and its replacement with the USDemocratPartyofEngland/NewLabour.
Now all that remains is the annihilation of the ConservativeParty/NewToriesUSRepublicanPartyofEngland to complete the set. This is well on its way.
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I must repeat that this so-called "Coalition" is in reality a Conservative Government; and also that the office of "Deputy Prime Minister" is a complete fraud and fantasy.
FPTP is not supposed to generate coalitions, never has before and has not done this time.
English political culture is an embarrassment to Europe.
On the walk there Tony Benn popped up on my music player - a speech attacking PR.
He said that one drawback of PR is that under that system we could get "a coalition government that nobody voted for."
WELL - OBVIOUS POINT - and truly amazing it is too - is that this is EXACTLY what we have now got after this last election under "FPTP".
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Even I was utterly shocked at the degree to which the prospect of a viable 3rd party in England has been annihilated.
The SDP has gone - and now so has the "Lib Dems." And hence also the Lberals or Whigs one of the oldest parties in English history.
ONE reason of course is the disappearance of the Labour Party and its replacement with the USDemocratPartyofEngland/NewLabour.
Now all that remains is the annihilation of the ConservativeParty/NewToriesUSRepublicanPartyofEngland to complete the set. This is well on its way.
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I must repeat that this so-called "Coalition" is in reality a Conservative Government; and also that the office of "Deputy Prime Minister" is a complete fraud and fantasy.
FPTP is not supposed to generate coalitions, never has before and has not done this time.
English political culture is an embarrassment to Europe.