London Banter - View Single Post - These writhing whales of the road have swung their hefty rear ends round our corners for the final time.

asdf · August 3rd 09, 01:46 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:43:06 -0500,
wrote:

Which is, of course, why the two alternating bunches of venal *******s
invest so much time and effort in assuring you that the two
alternating bunches of venal *******s are your only choices.

And is in itself both an excellent argument in favour of proportional
representation, and the precise reason why neither party will ever
bring it in.

Unless they are forced to. I just wish the public pressure from the
expenses scandal would lead to this. It could still happen, especially if
the "it'll all go away over the summer" hopes of leading politicians turns
out to be wrong.

How could they be forced to? It's a chicken and egg situation; under
the current system, the only pratical way the public can "force"
Labour to do anything is to (threaten to) elect the Tories, and vice
versa, and neither party will introduce PR or STV.

Whilst a large Lib Dem opinion poll lead might do the trick, enough of
the electorate is firmly stuck in a 2-party (or 1-party) mindset for
this to remain pure fantasy.