(Very quick) Idle musings on electoral reform
So it seems that many people are saying that FPTP throws up a hung parliament every 40-50 years whereas AV and PR would gives us a hung parliament after every election. So all of the coalition negotiations that we've got going on now would happen every time.
Surely this puts a lot of pressure on the Lib Dems to Get This Right (and preferably help to form a stable coalition government). Because if all of these coalition talks go to hell and we end up with something unstable or a minority government that cannot govern effectively, then there's going to be a lot of finger-pointing along the lines of "you want us to go through this every time but you just screwed it up, how is this going to be helpful in the future". Whereas, if a degree of stability is reached and everyone plays nicely, then they can turn around and say "look, the talks weren't so bad, we all behaved like adults, and now we're working together for the good of the country, isn't this great".
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Surely this puts a lot of pressure on the Lib Dems to Get This Right (and preferably help to form a stable coalition government). Because if all of these coalition talks go to hell and we end up with something unstable or a minority government that cannot govern effectively, then there's going to be a lot of finger-pointing along the lines of "you want us to go through this every time but you just screwed it up, how is this going to be helpful in the future". Whereas, if a degree of stability is reached and everyone plays nicely, then they can turn around and say "look, the talks weren't so bad, we all behaved like adults, and now we're working together for the good of the country, isn't this great".
This entry is a cross-post from Dreamwidth. You can leaves comments here or there as takes your fancy. To comment there, you'll need to use OpenID or you can get a DW account using one of the codes here or here.