Being from the U.S., I can tell you first-hand that a strict two party system is shit, too. We do have some other parties, but they are too small to be anything but spoilers in close elections. We don't use them to form coalitions, either. They really only take votes away from one or the other of the major parties, and thereby throw the proverbial spanner in the works.
The one thing everybody needs to remember is that I never claimed to be sane!