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    Default Re: The United Kingdom Elections 2010

    Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
    PR is a fundamentally bad system though. It is about electing parties and not people.
    (This is inregards to elections which revolve around picking a party, and if a party gets 20% of the votes, they get 20% of the Seats and the Party decides who goes into those seats.)
    PR is used in the Republic and it is not about electing parties and giving them seats It does however elect people who happen to be members of parties the same would be true in UK

    Incidently Ireland is one of the longest stable democratic countries in Europe apart from UK.
    Last edited by gaelic cowboy; 04-20-2010 at 18:42.
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