• HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    I suppose it’s possible they won’t make a pig’s ear of it and that the two-ish party rigidity of our system could be broken

    It will only be broken when voters work together to ensure it.

    The left as a whole are too willing to divide the vote. So fptp harms us more than the right, as empathy and emotion is a lower effect on their voting intentions. (I am in no way saying PR would end the right, just increase the power of the left to match actual vote share. )

    So the only possible way w can change FPTP if for the left to agree voting reform is the primary importance. Everything else must take a back seat to this. And even then it would take a few parliaments before the effect was powerful enough.