Proportional Representation

Thanks Ixey

The great benefit of FPTP, from the point of view of a hostile power, is that it allows much easier manipulation of elections to get the desired result - an actual majority of votes is not required.

Hence Donald Trump was elected with 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Boris Johnson got a "landslide" 80 seat majority with most voters voting against the Conservatives in 2019.

FPTP might be good enough for a puppet state like Belarus, but surely it should never be tolerated in a country aiming to be recognised as a liberal democracy?

Italy’s in a right mess though. ?
PR isn’t the Holy Grail.

Not one country which has changed from FPTP to PR has ever changed back.

PR is democratic. The government is the party or group of parties which together gained more than half the votes. Obviously it requires co-operation and compromise.

Co-operation is better than confrontation and willingness to compromise is a sign of maturity.

So what if 'Italy is in a right mess'? It's not the only country in the world that has PR. And neither is Irael, before you quote them, too.

Cooperation and compromise. Sounds Utopian. I think the reality is the electorate don’t get what they want. And a lot of horse trading is done with unintended consequences.

Urmstongran

Cooperation and compromise. Sounds Utopian. I think the reality is the electorate don’t get what they want. And a lot of horse trading is done with unintended consequences.

But the majority of the electorate in the UK don’t get what they want now.

Pretty much A or B. Left leaning or Right.
C of course = the Lib Dems. They ALWAYS want PR! Unsurprisingly.