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Denzil_DC

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2. I share Sophie's fear that PR would lead to the likes of the Brexit Party being advantaged.

Reply to Ghost Dog (Original post)

Sun Jul 7, 2019, 03:54 PM

Jul 2019

But unfortunately, they do reflect a strand of public opinion, so my opinion on that is entirely selfish.

However, as things are, the Tories and Labour chase their voters by aping their stances anyway, so they don't have to win any general election seats, so it might be better if we went for PR and had done with it (I voted in favour of it when we had the referendum a while back, though the flavour of PR on offer wasn't very good).

You don't defeat the right wing and populists by saying, "They're correct, don't vote for them!"

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Brexit is about disintegration of UK [View all] Ghost Dog Jul 2019 OP

I fear that PR right now would lead to the Brexit Party wielding far too much power n/t Soph0571 Jul 2019 #1

I share Sophie's fear that PR would lead to the likes of the Brexit Party being advantaged. Denzil_DC Jul 2019 #2