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The lack of other ‘reasonable’ options is a headache and one which will not be cured in my lifetime, that is a pity. Perhaps future generations may have better options.
Also newly formed 'reasonable' parties tend to get targeted by the other big parties before they can get enough traction.
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Yup. Oddly I was thinking about this, new parties nearly have to align themselves to the ‘traditional’ parties which completely defeats their purpose. Like a non-sectarian party which gets continually asked which religion they support - like the old jokes.
Things won’t change here for a long time unfortunately.
TGR
Perhaps the answer lies in the reasoning you mentioned. People who voted for SF or DUP still vote for them. Other people do not vote because of the lack of other options.
The other reason, which is more likely, is that the vote is based on either - vote for DUP to stop SF getting a seat or vote for SF to stop DUP getting a seat.
The lack of other ‘reasonable’ options is a headache and one which will not be cured in my lifetime, that is a pity. Perhaps future generations may have better options.