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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
The thing with PR though is that it wouldn't work with the current parliamentary system. We don't vote for the PM, or even the government - we vote for who we want to represent our constituency in the House of Commons. A PR system wouldn't be voting for a local MP.
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Oliver hi.
There's a great number of people in constituencies who haven't a clue who their MP currently is.
There are systems which can keep in the main constituency MP representation.
If things continue as they are then divisions across the UK will only widen.
Why can we have PR for the N Ireland elections, Welsh and Scottish elections.
Plus police and crime commissioner elections and also for ALL Mayoral elections.
However not for council and general elections.
We even had PR for the European elections too.
This system was fine when 2 Parties were taking 80+ to over 90+% of the votes cast.
Not now when they take massive overall majority power with around 40% of the votes only.
Against the votes of we'll over half of those who vote.