There may be no nasty impulse to punish ‘skivers’, but the end result – the most vulnerable hit hardest – is exactly the same, says columnist Frances Ryan
The thing that really grinds my gears is that at the next election people still won’t consider parties like the lib dems or greens that actually want to bring in social policies.
God, listening to folks bitching about LibDems because they were the scapegoat for the Tories decades ago is just saddening.
They have literally been the only party that have offered actual change to our voting system. Sometimes I dream of what a different state we would be in if that referendum had passed.
No. Welcome to people thinking that their vote doesn’t matter unless they’re “on the winning team”. The system allows anyone to win. The psychology of the electorate is locked into two party politics.
Nope the fact is FPTP is mathematically garrenteed to force a 2 party system. As 3rd parties will always split the vote forcing control to the more unified but smaller opposition.
The thing that really grinds my gears is that at the next election people still won’t consider parties like the lib dems or greens that actually want to bring in social policies.
God, listening to folks bitching about LibDems because they were the scapegoat for the Tories decades ago is just saddening.
They have literally been the only party that have offered actual change to our voting system. Sometimes I dream of what a different state we would be in if that referendum had passed.
Welcome to FPTP
No. Welcome to people thinking that their vote doesn’t matter unless they’re “on the winning team”. The system allows anyone to win. The psychology of the electorate is locked into two party politics.
Nope the fact is FPTP is mathematically garrenteed to force a 2 party system. As 3rd parties will always split the vote forcing control to the more unified but smaller opposition.