ForeverBlue92
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First past the post is horrendously outdated and needs doing away with!
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First past the post is horrendously outdated and needs doing away with!
tsubaki
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ForeverBlue92
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I just dont think its useful if you want to encourage multiple parties.
If you're happy with the choice of Labour / Conservative then fair enough but any smaller party has absolutely no chance in the UK.
tsubaki
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Multiple parties, or two parties, or any number of parties shouldn't be encouraged.
For a democratic system to work the MPs must only be beholden to their constituents; at the moment (and under any proposed reform) they are beholden to their parties with their constiutents at best a very distant second and often (in safe seats) behind the media and business opportunities.
AsiaAsia82
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I don’t know the percentage of labour voters the unions represent anymore though.
Some union views do alienate ‘centre’ voters who tip the scales at election period, so it’s a difficult balancing act.
Some union views do alienate ‘centre’ voters who tip the scales at election period, so it’s a difficult balancing act.
Marcus Rashford, leader of the opposition
davek
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Starmer is a massive helmet.
What a mistake the membership have made letting a tool like him become leader. Daft [Poor language removed].
Think he'll lose fewer or more elections than Corbyn?
Starmer raised the School meals issue in PMQs last week.
I like him, as do a fair few people I know who didn't vote for Corbyn's Labour.
spectateur
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No it wouldn't. Not while FPTP remains a method of selection.
It would further split the anti tory vote.
ForeverBlue92
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Aye FPTP needs doing away with - its no good for a multiple party system.
With a country as diverse as ours its crazy to have just 2 parties to ultimately choose from at present.
Alan Whittle
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I think he makes a good leader of the opposition. His legal background ensures he his able (as far a Parliament allows) to hold the government to scrutiny. I’m genuinely not sure if he will make a good Labour leader (too soon to tell) or PM (an entirely different skill set required than when in opposition.)
davek
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I have no idea what there is to like about him. He's so obviously a careerist who's plotted a course to the leader's job. He shamelessly stuck the knife into Corbyn's back in a coup after agreeing to be part of Corbyn's shadow cabinet team, and then when his coup failed, accepted another offer to be in the shadow cabinet.
His 'taking the knee' the other day was a huge insult to the people seeking justice for Jean Charles Menezes...someone he allowed the Met to shoot dead without punishment. What an unspeakable hypocrite he is.
The problem with that is extremists getting a foothold in Parliament.
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