In First Past the Post, the first rule is to design a position that captures the required number of seats. The second is to then divide into safe seats and "marginals". Then ignore all the safe and "lost" seats, and concentrate on the marginals. Do whatever they want to keep power. Build ships in Glasgow we don't need? Done if they hopefully will vote Labour. Offer to torture animals to death in the countryside? If that's what keeps the marginal Shires blue so be it.

Any disagreement in government is viewed in terms as "fractures" or other such terms. FPTP creates false monoliths where discussion and dissent are all but outlawed. Leaders to change allow this or God forbid change their mind are weak and are undertaking U turns.

Low level politics in England remains FPTP with the MP locally elected having almost no role to play in the local area, yet those who remain local are barely known to anyone. This all but destroys anyone caring about local politics.

Occasionally Central Government tries to make things at a more local level. Historically the issue has been there is then variance and some things might work better in some places than others. This is generally blamed on the central government and no one seems to listen that they have no control. The latest iteration might work better since they have installed local lightening rods (or Mayors) who can be held accountable for this. And local government tend to be more inclusive since ideals are less important than the bins being collected.

The UK I am informed is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society, and this is a Good Thing. I am not sure when the Plebiscite was on this, but I clearly missed the memo. I'm all for the former, but against the latter. I really dislike having to look at France with envy.

Everyone has to not just tolerate each other but actively like each other, as this is a Good Thing. To not do a Good thing makes you a Bad Person and an Intolerant Xenophobe who with absolutely no irony can therefore be Prosecuted.

However, Sunnis view Shi'ites as heretics. Catholics (especially) view all other denominations as heretics. I even had a friend at University who thought that heterosexual sex was disgusting - he was gay. At work most of the African people I worked with actively disliked those from the Caribbean and vice versa - one of the latter stating "I'm not Afro-Caribbean - I'm no f*cking African!"

I would view a compromise as for people to tolerate each other - but then I am agnostic. I am not sure how one can be deeply religious in one of the more... literal religions and be expected to get on with those one's religion has said to at the very least shun.