Apart from you will not answer my point. PR has proved to be even less effective than FPTP. Ireland has a government with terrorists, Italy changes its government monthly, Israel is now run by a left wing leader for 6 months then a right wing fanatic , Belgium's government took 18 months to be decided upon after the election, then a government no one wanted. I give facts your response is insults.
You don’t have a point. Nothing you’ve said is remotely reflected in reality. They aren’t facts.
You cite Italy but it’s the exception rather than the rule. PR coalition government are usually quite stable. Studies have clearly shown there is no evidence of persistent instability. The record of PR across European countries over many decades shows only a few instances (Italy being one of them) where instability has been a serious problem. The vast majority of PR countries have had stable and efficient governments. And the system you are arguing for is too stable. It has led to a government that can’t be challenged, that has all the power. On 40% of the vote. A nonsense.
You talk about extremists getting too much power in a PR system. More nonsense. You even made the ridiculous point that PR brought the Nazis to power demonstrating a complete misunderstanding of history. The Nazis came to power for a complex combination of reasons: economic depression, the association of the WR with Germany losing World War I. It was a perfect storm that brought Nazis to power which would have happened irrespective of what voting system was in place. Loads of other European countries during the time were also using PR voting systems and they did not get fascist governments.
It is a huge exaggeration that PR produces extremist governments or a significant proportion of extremist elected members. It’s just not borne out by the evidence. Most European countries have had PR for the last 50 years and there just hasn’t been any material number of extremist elected party representatives. There is also plenty of evidence that electing a small number of extreme members has a positive effect. It moderates and co-ops those extreme elements.
No political system can ever be perfect. But to argue that a system that isn’t used in any modern, forward thinking democracy, and which provides one party absolute, unfettered power on 40% of the vote can’t be improved upon is ridiculous. I mean jaw droppingly daft.
This is an answer you really didn’t deserve given the ridiculous nature of your responses but honestly, you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. There is so much evidence of PR working yet you focus on the very small number of immaterial ‘problems’ and then chose to interpret my posts as evidence that I was in favour of a fascist government. As I said above that is absolutely idiotic.
