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Originally Posted by Verbal

It makes me wish that there was a system in place that allowed any number of parties to gain power, i'm not politically minded so not sure of the terminology. It would cut all this crap out and the tories and labour would never see power again.

Any kind of Proportional Representation system would be better than First Past The Post, which is the current system we have. It's not democratic if a party can be voted into majority power with 40% of the vote, e.g.

Tories 40%
Labour 30%
Lib Dems 25%
Other parties 5%

In theory, the non-Tory parties could gang up to veto all of their decisions, but that doesn't always happen. There was a particular election that something like this actually happened in the UK, can't remember which year or which party benefitted but it was in the mid 1900s if I'm remembering correctly. If we had a PR system rather than FPTP, there wouldn't be nearly as many wasted votes as there are just now. If you live in an area that you know will always vote for the Conservative party, but you're a staunch Liberal Democrat supporter, either you will vote knowing that your vote won't count for anything or you just won't vote at all. It's ridiculous.