Quote Originally Posted by drillerpie View Post
Really interesting conversation this.

I'm pro PR but I think some people are missing a trick if they think moving to PR would turn Britain into a socialist paradise.]

I doubt anyone would think that.

[You would end up with Labour fracturing into Corbynite and Blairite parties, and before/during/after an election campaign they would have to compromise on policy, and the end result might not be very different to what we have now.

In addition we would probably have a centrist party (which might be the Blairite party plus a few moderate Conservatives).

On the other end of the spectrum the same thing would happen to the Conservative party and as well as helping parties further to the left it would also help those further to the right.
Yeah, the two main parties would likely smash to smithereens pretty quickly. That'd be a positive thing!
You'd probably get a couple of decades of centrifugal fracturing before parties began to combine and consolidate again. For me though, it's firstly about guaranteeing a voice, platform and place for the radical ideas the country desperately needs. Suppression of alternatives is one of main aims/outcomes of the current Westminster, business and finance-based system.

It'd be quite unpredictable. Projecting outcomes is interesting, but that misses the point really. You change the voting system because it's the right and fair thing to do.

Imagine devising a political system for a new country from scratch. Erm...What shall we do...
A) Let everyone vote and then have a forum of representatives in proportion to that vote...or
B ) Have a vote and then give disproportionately high representation and unlimited power to one and zero to others...