Why PR is bad
6:16pm
The situation about to unfold in Scotland is why I can’t stand PR. First of all, not one voter will get the government they actually voted for. Instead, politicians will disappear off into the modern equivalent of smoke-filled rooms and thrash out a deal while the public desperately tries to see in the window.
Also, the Greens—despite only having two MSPs, down from seven last time, and a miniscule percentage of the vote—will hold the balance of power if the Lib Dems and the SNP can come to an agreement. It is a truly perverse system that makes a party that lost 70 percent of its seats into the kingmakers.
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hogarth zombie
May 5th, 2007 8:38am Report this commentPeople forget that Blair promised a referendum on PR at Westminster in Labour's first term! He's going, but we'll end up with PR in practice in a hung Parliament next time with Brown and Campbell doing a deal to keep the English out.
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