Quote:Someone said yesterday that if PR was introduced the Conservative party would never gain power again
Saying "someone'' is like saying "a lot of people"
Quote:A lot of people are fucking stupid. (George Carlin)
A change of voting system will making no difference to whom is is in power. The only things which guarantee control by one party are Jerrymanders and dictatorships.
The same pattern will continue:The Tories will be in most of the time. Occasionally Labour will be elected to address the worst excesses of Tory rule and introduce the odd reform in health,education,and Welfare. Labour will then proceed to make a pig's breakfast of the economy and piss people off. Tories get voted back in to clean up the mess. Eventually they become arrogant,overestimate the bovine stupidity of the electorate and introduce something which really pisses people off,like a poll tax for example-------
No single party is 'best' for the country long term that I have ever noticed. There is no political ideology which has all the answers, even when there is a real choice.Today the choice is between varying degrees of conservatism.There is no effective political left in the UK,US or Australasia.
