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For the non-Brits who don't get the reference: a "P45" in the UK is a standard form that your employer issues you when you leave a job (whether you were fired or you quit), used for tax purposes.

I can't recommend the book Amusing Ourselves to Death enough, especially in our current hyper-stupid times.

I don't buy the "FPTP gives strong government" argument. Even if we accept that FPTP gives the government "clarity and a definitive mandate" (a very dubious claim given the chaos of the last few years), what's so great about strong government? The whole point of democracy is to prevent the government from getting too strong; if we really wanted strong government we'd abolish parliament and go back to letting the monarch decide everything.

Many, many European countries have proportional systems in which it's very rare for one party to get a clear majority and governments are almost always coalitions. Would Norway, Sweden or the Netherlands really be better off under a system like FPTP that effectively disenfranchises a large majority of the electorate?