Quote Originally Posted by Fellbeast View Post
Under the first past the post system in the U.K. (and the electoral college in the US) no party can just represent working class people and expect to win an election. Working class in both places is also split racially which often means that being say representative of immigrants rights might make you less appealing to working class people who resent immigrants.

The name of the game is proportional representation, where a government has to be formed most often on compromise and respecting alternative points of view. That’s the answer going forward and you might argue that voting for Keir Starmer next time round might afford a slight chance of getting that
Then no one gets what they vote for.

If I were to pick a system that would seem to work well, I'd opt for the Swiss system. More power locally and can anyone name a Swiss politician?