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The problem we've had over here is the big parties haven't wanted to relinquish power or don't seem to recognise how much the political climate has changed.
UKIP got big because people wanted an alternative not really because people wanted to leave the EU. You can tell that because Cameron gave people the EU referendum to try and neuter them. They just reformed into Reform UK and are now polling scary well.
The most sensible thing Labour could do this parliament is introduce proportional representation in some kind. That way at rhe next election they'd likley be the biggest party in a centre left colalition. There's no signs of them even considering it. They seem to still think that power should be all or nothing.
What we get now, because they've hung on so tight to FPTP is a really big chunk of people voting tactically against the party they don't want.
I honestly would love an option to vote against a party (as in, give them -1 vote) rather than voting for a party. Kind of a "I don't care who wins, as long as it isn't this person", or "I don't want this person in office, but I don't like their opponent enough to vote for them." I think it'd be very telling if you had an election and all candidates had a negative vote total at the end.
Haha yeah that would actually be really good.