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I do like the German system too. But I'm not sure Britain is really ready for coalition politics, where you have to accept parties will need to make compromises, to work together. Clearly the Lib Dem voters couldn't accept that. And if parties aren't willing to make compromises, the whole system won't work.
Er? If they have to make compromises, they will. And if the 'alternative' is to continue to have a wildly unrepresentative system for elections in which results are obscured in a completely absurd manner, I don't really see why that should be a decisive reason not to have it.
And yes, that would mean that UKIP would have had 83 seats this time round, but I'm pretty sure that they've only attracted so much of the vote because of the absurdities of the FPTP system. Look at protest voting in Germany, where it isn't nearly as successful.
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Oliver Schick
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I do like the German system too. But I'm not sure Britain is really ready for coalition politics, where you have to accept parties will need to make compromises, to work together. Clearly the Lib Dem voters couldn't accept that. And if parties aren't willing to make compromises, the whole system won't work.