The Member for Makerfield will be Prime Minister. The questions he is asking have promise but his plan is not living up to his proposals. Andy's first attack, the whips.
While all that may be true, in this article you’ve looked at the argument primarily from a politician’s perspective, and in doing so have avoided addressing the main argument in favour of proportional representation from within the electorate.
I’m sure most people who would like to see PR aren’t motivated by a desire for stronger MP adherence to party lines, but instead are more concerned with the gaping flaw in the current first-past-the-post system, namely that voters in a safe seat constituency (like yours) who didn’t vote for the dominant party feel that their vote doesn’t count for anything.
I suspect that that’s why many people, especially young people, feel disengaged from politics, believe that the system doesn’t really work for them and therefore don’t bother to participate resulting in ever decreasing turnouts.
Historically this has never been dealt with
by the party in power, because we’ve effectively had a two party system for so many years (and Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas!)
However, now that we have two or three other parties significantly splitting the vote (i.e. Reform, Lib Dems, Greens) we have somehow ended up with a party in power with a landslide, and yet one that received only 33.7% of vote (just 20.2% of the total registered electorate) and are pursuing an aggressive political agenda which is very unpopular with a majority of people in the country.
Surely there’s a way that a more representative system like PR can be implemented which preserves an element of freedom of choice for the candidates?
And while you are at remaking the body politic, worry not so much about the whips, just seek out some MPs with a pair of gonads. I don't think you could find a single pair among the Labour members. So you could modify Kemi's 5 Cs to be 5 Cs and a G.
Tom,
While all that may be true, in this article you’ve looked at the argument primarily from a politician’s perspective, and in doing so have avoided addressing the main argument in favour of proportional representation from within the electorate.
I’m sure most people who would like to see PR aren’t motivated by a desire for stronger MP adherence to party lines, but instead are more concerned with the gaping flaw in the current first-past-the-post system, namely that voters in a safe seat constituency (like yours) who didn’t vote for the dominant party feel that their vote doesn’t count for anything.
I suspect that that’s why many people, especially young people, feel disengaged from politics, believe that the system doesn’t really work for them and therefore don’t bother to participate resulting in ever decreasing turnouts.
Historically this has never been dealt with
by the party in power, because we’ve effectively had a two party system for so many years (and Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas!)
However, now that we have two or three other parties significantly splitting the vote (i.e. Reform, Lib Dems, Greens) we have somehow ended up with a party in power with a landslide, and yet one that received only 33.7% of vote (just 20.2% of the total registered electorate) and are pursuing an aggressive political agenda which is very unpopular with a majority of people in the country.
Surely there’s a way that a more representative system like PR can be implemented which preserves an element of freedom of choice for the candidates?
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And while you are at remaking the body politic, worry not so much about the whips, just seek out some MPs with a pair of gonads. I don't think you could find a single pair among the Labour members. So you could modify Kemi's 5 Cs to be 5 Cs and a G.
"So when Andy says he wants to weaken the whips. "
How about a complete sentence? Maybe start with a complete thought ....