We need sortition.
Yes we do.
How do we get it? By using the current highly flawed system and convincing the winner to change to a better way of doing things despite them benefitting from the status quo! Yeah, I see the problem.
Most countries receive pr through multi-party agreements, you’re on the right track by suggesting a sortition as the government could put together a group of everyday citizens to review all the electoral systems in 3 months to recommend the best one. That then the British government must be pressured to implement with the other parties.
Ireland and New Zealand pressured their establishment politicians to do the right thing and they got electoral reform passed. So the same can happen in the UK. It’s just a matter of persistence and pressure from the public.
It seems the government use first-past-the-post to keep the public away from true democracy. In 1996 there was 14 major parties in Sweden, but now there is right, middle and left.
Personally I want an anti war party, much like what Jeremy Corbyn was offering as the whole of my life has been consumed with imperialism.
Having been born in 1979, I have seen lie after lie, bringing war after war. It blows my mind when being on very large protests that the media and government collude to keep the deep state, imposing on innocent countries.
Only if it stops Nigel Cunting Farage from getting anywhere near Downing Street. Otherwise keep the current system until he’s fucked off somewhere.
We shouldn’t deny people representation as that’s completely undemocratic not to mention the extremists could just lurk behind the 2 big parties. With proportional representation there’s more transparency of what political ideologies the population supports.
First-past-the-post didn’t stop Robert Mugabe and Donald Trump.
