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>On Fri, 23 May 2008 18:43:55 +0100, "William Black"
><willia...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
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>>"Gaz" <gaz...@msn.com> wrote in message
>>news:69odptF...@mid.individual.net...
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>>> Any election where we have three strong parties is unlikely to produce a
>>> single party with 50% percent.
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>>At the moment I don't see a down-side here...
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>probably because there isn't (any serious) one
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>av may improve the situation but the great advantage of fptp is
> that any party must be a wide coalition in order to win....
>in normal times that shuts out the worst extremists...
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>Just one vote more than any other candidate and they take the seat under fptp!It matters not the amount of votes they have gained!
>Suffragettes were considered extremist and they too were shut out.
suffragettes got approximately what they desired
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