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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
I like your use of the word ever.
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I'll rephrase: if we continue have more than two parties attracting more than 15-20% of the vote, as per our current situation, it strikes me as being rather unlikely that a single party will attain 50% of the vote.
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
Nah, I didn't actually consider that. Regardless there's going to be a large proportion of the population searching for an alternative which offers them more of a "voice". Actually I just looked at the election results for 2005 and it doesn't really look like there is.
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Most of the electorate are so used to FPTP that they just don't know what the alternatives are. It's not a pressing issue since no party that's actually in power (with the advantages for the biggest party that FPTP brings) will move to a system where they won't have control.
The Lib Dems advocate PR but that's because it would double their number of MPs. Labour used to advocate PR during the Thatcher/Major years....look what happened when they got into power. The issue was quietly dropped by the time of the 2001 election.