UK elections thread

[eugmac]

The downside is that with proportional representation, hardly anybody ever wins a majority (over 50%), so you have coalitions a lot of the time. Actually this is probably a good thing. But it's boring for people, because there's no clear winner, and everything is always a compromise.

[Hoopy]

The downside is that with proportional representation, hardly anybody ever wins a majority (over 50%), so you have coalitions a lot of the time. Actually this is probably a good thing. But it's boring for people, because there's no clear winner, and everything is always a compromise.

It would certainly be harder to get laws passed than it is now. And people are so used to labour or tory that the first election could be very surprising if everyone understand how it worked.