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Old 09-05-2008, 06:24 PM   #46 (permalink)
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Default Europhile, PR, FPTP, UKIP, French, General Election, Parliament, voting, Mitterrand

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Originally Posted by eublues View Post
When such a system comes in (under EU instructions) it will no doubt be devised in such a way as to give small parties little or nothing in terms of seats.
True - the europhile political establishment in our country would only bring in proportional representation (PR) voting for UK General Elections if they could find a PR system which UKIP could not win under.

And if UKIP did start winning seats under PR voting in a General Election the europhiles would very quickly change the system back to First-Past-The-Post (i.e. FPTP - the voting system used now for British General Elections).

In France when small parties started to win seats in the French Parliament under PR the French President at the time (Mitterrand) speedily moved back to a variation of FPTP.
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