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Mustang1 Mustang1:
FPTP is the electoral method...you can still have a coalition with it as our parliamentary system of government allows for it.
Yes you can but given the public reaction to the Coalition of the Three Stooges last December I don't expect to see another coalition proposed any time soon.
Or a prorogation.
And of course in FPTP the likelihood of a coalition is a lot less. In the "Israeli" simulation the Dips/Libs/Greens would have had more seats than the Tories. In actual fact they had far fewer.
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I do like the plurality system better, i agree with you, but it's due to the fact that it forces parties to broaden their bases, discourages fringe parties and avoids questionable swing parties in coalitions.
Agreed. We'd have parties coming out of ears with PR most of them pure single-issue and more a nuisance than anything else.