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Loukas Christodoulou | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c88dc264 it's interesting how in countries with only a few parties the shifts happen within parties, while in countries with PR it tends to happen between parties.
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a231938f | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b870d4c8 indeed. But then the only countries in Europe to use FPTP voting are Belarus and the UK.

Curious, that.
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Loukas Christodoulou | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c88dc264 Britain is still using parliament Vista and hasn't upgraded.
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5c415355 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b870d4c8 @c88dc264 Exactly. I'm pretty sure that the reason both the Labour and Tory parties campaigned against AV for the 2011 UK referendum was not because of any immediate effects it would have had (very little) but the realisation that with AV both parties would eventually split up. In retrospect we can see that would probably have been over Brexit.
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Loukas Christodoulou | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @573d6b89 @c88dc264 that's an interesting point, that AV might change how politicians feel about the threshold for striking out on their own, as several did over the last 10 years but disappeared.