Like people have said, Miliband is the minister who has most clearly arrived into office with a plan. I do like a nice simple target that is closely aligned to what needs to happen. (View Post)

I believe the name Single Member Plurality is used instead of FPTP in technical discussions for that reason. (View Post)

I think the last election in Britain shows us that FPTP now means most people are voting against something, rather than for something, and this has meant they've ended up with an absence of some… (View Post)

Sounds fine as a theory. Fails validation when confronted with real-world evidence given the manifest failings of Westminster and the better performance of other countries with decades of coalition g… (View Post)

What you describe in the first of these paragraphs is a feature of STV, not a bug. The voters control whether their vote transfers between candidates for the same party. This is better than closed-li… (View Post)