FPTP promotes parties with a minority of the votes getting majorities to govern - this gives outweighted power to the governing party and demands that parties hold together even if they (ideologicall… (View Post)

There's also the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules... (View Post)

It's what many people always said about austerity, though. There was a difference between managing the financial crisis and then using that moment as an opportunity for massive ideological destr… (View Post)

I would argue the issue is, in many ways, FPTP - if you have "safe seats" on 30-40% of the vote because there is no unified opposition, you end up with people who are frothing at the brain … (View Post)

I started university just as many of Goves education reforms were starting, and by the time I had finished my Masters all the teachers who said I should go into teaching because I would be good at it… (View Post)