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Grinning BBC boss blows raspberry at UK.gov, eyes up buffet

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Great

"Over two thirds of voters picked someone other than the Tories."

That argument might hold water if those two thirds all agreed on the same party. As it stands, despite ending up with Cameron, it's probably the "best" system we have to work with. Most of the PR systems seem to mean that some constituencies might end up with a 2nd or even 3rd placed candidate being your new MP.

Maybe we could go sort of american and use first past the post for MP and largest total vote for Prime Minister and see if we can hamstring the govt. more than usual by having opposing parties running the joint at the same time. That might even be a good thing ;-)

(I don't think I want to see US Presidential style elections separate from the MPs elections)

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