If There Was A General Election Tomorrow …

[naomi24]

... which party would you vote for?  

[davebro3]

tweedledum and tweedledee should be consigned to the last century. A government of compromise could take the the country forward without continually flip-flopping betwen extremes.

[david small]

Reform. This attitude that anything other than con/lab is a wasted vote, is a defeatist acceptance of the status quo.

[davebro3]

// FPTP tends to lead to a government with the ability to govern as they wish//

YES - that's the whole bloody problem !

[jourdain2]

Reform.  I don't think Badenoch is tough enough - she's starting from the po.v. of trying to keep ECHR etc. and amend things.

[ponkle]

Reform

[Peter Pedant]

Badenoch or her successor has four years to turn things around

[Peter Pedant]

shouldnt it be 'were' - if there were an election

because the condition is never gonna be filled ( closed conditional)

My own grouse is that "was" an imperfect is used in a future sense  - noo noo noo

[fripfrip]

If they promise to leave the ECHR it would be reform,send all the illegals already here back, and stop any future boats full of illegals from landing on our shores.

[New Judge]

"YES - that's the whole bloody problem !"

Why is it a problem, dave?

The purpose of a government is to govern. That cannot be done if everything they want to do has to be subject to a compromise. That way everybody gets what nobody wants (or voted for).

[davebro3]

In a coalition government not everyone takes part. It is made up of parties with similar aims & proposed actions whilst toning down some of the more extreme ideologies that a single party may have. It does not have to be moribund & unable to govern effectively.

I don't see why we always have to have a government which alienates half the electorate & takes the country off in a direction that its successor will try to reverse. It's daft.

[Quenched]

Lib Dems. 

In fact that's who I voted for this time. 

[DDIL]

labour

[brainiac]

The Subjunctive Party :)

[Untitled]

Green, as I did last time

[Untitled]

the purpose of the government in a democratic country is to govern (within reason) according to the wishes of the people. doing that necessitates compromise and indeed compromise is an essential part of governing. i agree completelt with davebro

 

of course undemocratic countries don't need to worry so much about it. i get the impression that many people in the UK would actually prefer not to live in a democratic country but do not wish to say so out loud.

[bednobs]

thankfully, there wont be.  we only had one six months ago. We are not italy!