Poor arguments against PR
"It lets parties like the BNP get seats"David Cameron just made this argument (and Gordon Brown somewhat supported it). I've never understood it. If 5% of the country supports the BNP, it hardly makes the problem go away to design an electoral system to give them no representation in a parliament. It's the voting stage which is where their appeal needs to be beaten, not at the distribution of parliamentary power.
Furthermore FPTP doesn't give voters anymore power to remove bad governments than any other system. It does give voters the power to remove bad MPs more than, say, a party list PR system, but not more than many other forms of PR, indeed STV can give more.
Also Gordon Brown is as 'unelected' as any other Prime Minister, and as 'unelected' as David Cameron will be, unless David Cameron is proposing massive constitutional change.
posted by Matthew @ 6/10/2009 11:07:00 AM
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