That Starmer fella...

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Greenbank in reply to @villa-ru

Yep. But, as ever, after a big win there's no incentive to change it.
And, funny as it would be, that huge a majority isn't really very good for long term democracy.

Indeed. A switch to PR when polling 48% will obviously not lead to a majority under PR:
a) Many people will use the switch to PR to actualyl vote for their preferred parties (e.g. voting for the Greens rather than 'Most likely to oust the Tories' = Labour)
b) 48% of the vote share (as in the current opinion poll above) isn't a majority

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villa-ru in reply to @Greenbank

I'd like to see polling on what would happen if we did switch to PR. I guess closer to the councils with decent numbers for Greens and Lib Dems.
One problem with a switch is that it would take a generation of new politicians to learn to compromise and make deals in order to get things done. Unlearning the antagonistic current behaviour would take a while.

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Grumpy_Git in reply to @villa-ru

You would find that extremists on the left and right would end up with an MP or two.

I'd rather see an change in our antagonistic parliamentary and legal systems before a change in fptp.

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