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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
Both Labour and Conservative strongly oppose proportional representation. The first past the post system has its faults but it has allowed governments with a majority to go ahead and implement their policies as set out in their manifestos. PR puts way to much power into small potentially extremist groups. Its not pretty. It also lets in people by default rather than them being truly elected. If they are first in the list and a party gets so many votes, then they get a seat - not exactly democratic in my opinion.
With PR, we would have representatives from such wonderful parties as the Monster raving lunatics .. is this really what we want in this country? I hope not.
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Agree, FPTP is far from perfect but it is the most sensible system imo
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