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Britain must now unite behind Count Binface (www.newstatesman.com)

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The article is behind a paywall but you can see the first two paragraphs. The headline alone is something I agree with, regardless of the article. This quote is good:

Nigel Farage has called a referendum on whether he should be allowed to accept millions of pounds from a secretive donor based in Thailand without declaring it properly, and it looks as if the only person who is prepared to have this argument with him is a man with a bin on his head.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

You can thank First Past The Post for that.

More democratic countries have electoral systems were electoral circles are bigger and have multiple representatives and were this shit will simply not happen (there is no such thing as a byelection in such a system - if a party's MP for a circle drops, the next on in the list for that party in that electoral circle gets the seat).

More in general, because all electoral circles have multiple representatives, it's far more likely for somebody there to have at least one MP that represents them than when an electoral circle only elects a single person to Parliament and were even counting a "tactical vote" choice (i.e. vote for the least disliked, rather than for the one you actually like) as being "represented" you can have 49.9(9)% of people not being at all represented.

That shit is shit exactly because it's the product of a shit system designed to be the least Democratic as possible whilst still being multi-party.