Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Would Keir Starmer introduce proportional representation to the UK? | The New Statesman" video.

  1. Should he? Yes, will he? Probably not, the system as is suites both the Conservative and Labour Party just fine, whiles making it difficult for rivals to enter the political debate. If the Liberal Democrats got into power with enough seats to make a difference, I suspect they very likely would because it would benefit them plus other parties, it would also weaken the two main parties, and what we see in the UK is not that different from what we see in the US where two parties dominant, whiles having the rules in place to make it very difficult for third party to enter the arena and almost impossible in the US. It's also why I dislike the term saying one country is a democracy and another isn't, it's not an on-off switch, it scales from 0-100 and I consider the UK and the US to be a democracy, but a pretty weak one that the system doesn't represent the interest of the public because it ignores a lot of the voices in it and probably a big reason why Brexit in the UK happened and Trump in the US got into power, it's a call for help from many in society that feel they are unheard and being left behind and it stands to reason, trying to group so many varied people into two camps doesn't sound very democratic to me, views on a lot of policies vary a lot from people, but people are boxed into two different ideologies when it comes to who you can realistically vote for, and yes you can vote for others, but because of the way the system is designed, it ends up being a wasted vote that archives little to nothing.
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