How would PR have changed the UK election?
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 15:04,
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"Right, that's great love. Now look at the laptop and nod as if you're in conversation with somebody. Fantastic."
(, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 15:32, Reply)
Well there wouldn't have been as much (if any) tactical voting, certainly not manifesting in the same way,
so extrapolating PR results from this particularly unique FPTP election is fun and interesting but not much of an indicator of what would have happened.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 17:04,
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Yup
I for one would've have voted totally differently* if I wasn't desperately trying to game the broken system.
* Vote Bargle, for a fairer Karameikos!
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 18:46,
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That’s like saying if the people at a poker match
Had done played the same cards at a bridge match the winners would have been different. No shit. The parties fundraising, organising, data, campaigning etc is For the first past posts system.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 18:01,
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dont support PR at constituency level
still doesn't properly represent how people vote. only full pr (like this report presented to you like you're a fucking child by channel 4 not showing somebody's cock or jimmy carr for a spare 5 minutes)
but it does allow extreme parties a seat. and IIRC when what far right party with the bloke with the wonky eye was about they polled about 10%, so 10% of the seats.
also this doesn't work with parliamentary politics, you'd get somebody decided by the party.
ohh... none of it works its all bollocks I should just be supreme leader.
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Paul Raymond? Well the photos would probably be in soft-focus for a start.
(, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 8:03, Reply)
i like having a local member and a constituency
a local you can blame or bitch too
Reckon it's a good feature of parliamentary democracy. You wouldn't get that with PR unless you decided to randomly assign winning members to seats. Why even have seats if the PR is for the whole country? Do you have 550 on the ballot card, or just vote for party and not know who you're voting for?
I think the australian lower house preferential system of voting is better than PR and first past the post for reasons I mentioned a few days ago here and won't bore you with again
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 9:32,
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In theory, they should be good local representatives.
In practice, the closest contact I’ve ever had with my local MP was an 18th birthday card from Ken Clarke.
(, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 22:27, Reply)
We have had PR over here in Northern Ireland for years
as well as photo ID etc and look at the shit show we have.
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 12:02,
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well yes I give you that
and she can have my wood anytime
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 18:58,
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I find there is very little I can't solve with a Per Rectum examination
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Woo Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 15:28,
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In one of our lectures at uni
(mid 90s, so scribbles on acetates on an overhead projector) one of the slides about ear drops had directions to put them in the R ear. Our classmate from French Guyana incredulously yelled "you insert them into your REAR?!?"
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