Rich 1 posted:
I'm not happy with any of the parties, large or small. Individuals at best have their own, sometimes crackpot agenda's, at worst their own self interests at heart. To think that my father and grandfather fought two world wars and our parliamentary system and country is as bad now as it was then. Oh, and before any one says at least we're getting out of the EU. What's the difference between being ruled by crackpots in the EU and the crackpots in the UK because all the UK parties are riddled with them!
Of course we had a choice in 2010/2011 to fundamentally change our voting system and there by extension our political system from first past the post to a form of proportional representation (which I personally voted for) which was the Lib Dems price for propping up call me Dave's government.
Only 6 million voted for change, 13 million for the status quo out of an electorate of about 45 million so a very poor turnout.
Using some other members rationale from the Brexit thread this means that only barely 1 out of 5 from a UK population of 62 million in 2010 supported our current voting system. Proof it were ever needed that we should scrap the lot of them and probably all kill ourselves.
Ray
