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PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:14 pm
 


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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.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:20 pm
 


leewgrant leewgrant:

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.

Agreed. We'd have parties coming out of ears with PR most of them pure single-issue and more a nuisance than anything else.


I think the threat of coalitions - rightly or wrongly - has soured many Canadians on the erratic nature of a potential PR system. This country's political past simply doesn't support it and our current populace seems turned off by it.

Keep FPTP and if the Tories get another minority, they get another minority.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:53 pm
 


May is a moron and even if she got one seat she would still be irrelevant.


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