Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
by leereeves on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:36AM
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> The 2019 election - just like the previous 3, subverted the popular vote by way of First Past the Post. Nationally, the pro-leave side only secured a minority of the vote.
Labour's official position is to negotiate a deal and then hold a final referendum. [1]
So there were three positions in the election (leave, remain, vote again) and leave won the largest share of the popular vote.
Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
by DaiPlusPlus on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:42AM
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But even so, the largest share were not the majority.
The majority of the country doesn’t want the Tories to negotiate the withdrawal. But that’s what is going to happen.
Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
by leereeves on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:57AM
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I don't think proportional representation would fix that.
PR would probably lead to even more parties with each having fewer votes and none ever having a majority.
Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
by sokoloff on Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:07AM
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I think that would a feature at least as much as a bug. If the national government becomes focused on doing the most essential things and is forced to build broad-based, cross-party coalitions to accomplish that, it seems that causes the people to be better represented than if a majority party can cram through their point of view without worrying about trodding over those (temporarily) in the minority.
Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
by learnstats2 on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:25AM
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Plenty of other countries have managed to get PR. So, this is a hypothetical objection only.
And unfortunately a major problem with proportional representation is there's no one single best way to achieve PR - any campaign to achieve PR would be stymied by splitting the pro-PR faction between STV and IRV, for example.