Monday, 14 December 2015

A Sense of Proportion

Chuka Umunna and Jonathan Reynolds will introduce a Bill on Wednesday to elect the House of Commons by the Additional Member System.

It will not pass. But even if it did, then there would be none of the "realignment" that it is usually assumed would follow any departure from First Past The Post.

Most members or supporters of any party do not identify with a wing, only with the party.

Under any other electoral system, the established British party pattern that was carried over into it would remain essentially unchanged.

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