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I would be amazed if this actually came to fruition. It would paralyze the country yet again while they play party politics. That would be four PMs all from one election result. Four sets of resignation honours lists. yet another round of all change in ministerial positions. What would a new face actually achieve with so little time left in parliament time.
If this looked likely, I could see Sunak doing what Johnson threatened. That would be to call an early election. I firmly believe Sunak is in this for the money with the business interests of his family. If a VONC looked imminent then he has no interests in politics anymore. He knows he will not be the next PM. He will want a get out of jail free option, IMO.
According to polls, a GE would be a wipe out with the Tory party. If Labour step aside for the LD, there is even a possibility that Sunak would loose this own seat. He may not even have to go through the indignant process of resigning while in office.
I can easily see how there could be enough Tory MPs to trigger this. So many who have nothing to loose anymore. Many are stepping down as candidates, and many more who know they will be out of a job. I sincerely hope that if they do pull the trigger then Sunak sees the option of going to the ballot boxes. I can do without the last year of parliament being stagnated by yet more Tory in fighting.
We desperately need electoral reform.
In a more diverse political landscape like the ones enabled by proportional representation, it’s very hard for a single party to be able to reach a majority without coalition partners.
If the Tories had to rely on coalition partners, there’s no way they’d have been able to hold a coalition together this long - they can hardly hold their own party together at this point.
I desperately want to see voting reform. I am even considering to join the Labour party to help push for it in there. I hate the two party system. I have become more and more in favour of PR voting while watching the gerrymandering stunts the conservatives are doing in the US. I think we have gotten off lightly. Take some time to watch some:
https://www.youtube.com/@MeidasTouch/videos
and
https://www.youtube.com/@briantylercohen/videos
Both are very much democratic bias. The egregious stunts they have mentioned regarding republican political blocking is obscene. The republicans fund an international organisation called National Conservatism. We could so easily have gone the way the US is now.
Agreed. FPTP is the reason for all of this. With a proportionate voting system, a Tory majority on 40% of the vote would not have been possible this wretched government would have fallen long ago and there would never have been a revolving door of Prime Ministers, let alone Brexit. FPTP is creating extreme polarization which is creating channels for weakened institutions and brazen corruption.
Ideally at the GE Labour falls short of a majority and has to form a coalition with the Lib Dems.
Then maybe we will see proportional representation.