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I don’t know, to be honest - maybe? I guess Pr would get rid of safe seats where the MP can get away with murder.
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I guess Pr would get rid of safe seats where the MP can get away with murder.
In some LATAM experience, proportional representation has created safe seats and guaranteed jobs for party leaders. The worst ones are the leaders of small, often ideologically-imaged parties (eg, that claim they’re ecologists or for minority group rights), that don’t win a seat anywhere, but they’re personally guaranteed national legislator jobs.
Sure, the UK might come up with a more clever system, but PR does create niches for sly snakes to stay.
Eseman
Does fptp exacerbate this? In a more representative Parliament, folks would be kept more honest surely?