Comments by "Anthony Flack" (@AnthonyFlack) on "UK election result if we had proportional representation" video.

  1. Not true, as can be demonstrated by looking at ALL THE COUNTRIES.
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  2. Works fine if there are more than one centre party.
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  3.  @goooooorkyo  - under MMP you still have your constituency represented by an MP who got a plurality of the vote in your constituency. Reform would have a proportion of MPs equivalent to their share of the vote, but they wouldn't be constituency MPs unless they won that constituency. They would be list MPs not representing any district.
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  4. People keep saying this even though under MMP you still have constituency MPs, and the party lists are public so you do know who you're voting for.
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  5. You still have a local constituency MP. You can look this stuff up you know.
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  6.  @PaddyPerring  - sounds like MMP, which we have in New Zealand. Some will say it doesn't work... it works much better than FPP.
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  7. The referendum was a sham and a disgrace, the alternative put forward was not the best alternative, there was no other alternative offered, and the PM shamelessly lied to the country about how it would work.
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  8.  @FranzBieberkopf  - save us from representation? More MPs is not a bad thing. Better than having fewer. Better than the opposite end of the scale with one person holding all the power.
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  9.  @markaxworthy2508  - so now you've added some more false statements to the thing you've copy-pasted ten times over. STV gives you the opportunity to vote for the candidate you actually want rather than being forced to vote tactically. Why do you have to go so far out of your way to misrepresent everything?
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  10.  OnafetsEnovap  - yeah like you might not have the Prime Minister lying about how the proposed alternative would work. And you might not have the choice limited to only one not particularly good alternative.
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  11. Under MMP you still have MPs representing a constituency.
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  12. You were offered one choice, and the PM blatantly lied to the public about how it would work. And if somebody doesn't follow politics they shouldn't be made to vote. People vote in ignorance too much as it is.
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  13. Voters were lied to, but one bad decision shouldn't doom you forever, cough Brexit
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  14. That referendum was a joke. The PM wouldn't even tell the truth about how the alternative would work.
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  15. I remember David Cameron flat out LYING about how AV would work, saying it would give voters for minor parties MORE VOTES than those voting for major parties. David Cameron is not so stupid that he doesn't understand how AV works. He ran a campaign of lies.
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  16. That's not true of MMP, you still have constituency MPs.
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  17.  @markaxworthy2508  you post the same comment over and over and over, and then if anyone engages you start an argument. FPTP is the worst and like most NZers I'm glad we got rid of it.
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  18.  @markaxworthy2508  - you've posted again and again about the virtues of FPTP, and you apparently don't even know how MMP works in your own country. That is NOT true under any system. In NZ your party vote is only wasted if your chosen party gets less than 3%, like all the people who voted for TOP.
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  19. Under MMP you would still vote for a constituency MP.
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  20.  @markaxworthy2508  - we already heard you the first five times you cut and pasted this response.
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  21. ​ @markaxworthy2508  - we've already read it three times by now. Once was enough to get the point, and I don't think it's worth repeating. Voters not getting exactly what they ask for isn't necessarily a flaw - we have representative democracies for good reason.
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  22. The trouble with that is that on every issue the public would go for the Boaty McBoatface option, and government policy would be completely incoherent, budgets wouldn't add up, everything would fall apart and nobody would take the blame.
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  23. There was absolutely scaremongering. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, claimed that under AV, people who voted for minority parties would get MORE VOTES THAN YOU! This was nothing less than an outright lie, and that was how the government of the day campaigned on the issue.
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  24. You have 600 first past the post elections, all of which can be won by a minority of the vote. A government elected from the accumulation of six hundred rounding errors. Which is why you can get more than 60% of the seats with 30% of the vote.
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