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Britannist · 18-12-2006, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Anthony Butcher

Straight proportional representation isn't great in terms of getting things done, but then we might not have had ID cards, foundation hospitals, regional assemblies, house arrest etc if we had had it in place instead of this authoritarian Labour party bringing in whatever it wants to.

There are compromise solutions such as AV+ and the Total representation system promoted by UKIP. These offer the best of both systems, i.e. 500 contituency MPs plus 100-150 top up regional MPs.

The Total Representaition system proposed by former UKIP leader Mr. Knapman is the best alternative to the present 'First Past The Post' electoral system (used for General Elections) which I have come across.

Apart from anything else, if put into practice, it would end 'the need' to vote tactically in the FPTP constituency vote - because the size of the vote of every party would be taken into account in the constituencies for the allocation of seats on the 'top up' list.

Therefore someone who votes UKIP in, let's say, Swindon South constituency (where UKIP presently probably only polls a few hundred votes) would find that their vote was as valid as that of those who elected the winning MP. It would encourage more people to vote UKIP when they knew their vote in their own constituency was electing people to Parliament on the top up list even if their candidate failed to win the constituency.

Consequently voting patterns would change in many parliamentary constituencies and UKIP would increase its chances of winning a directly-elected constituency seat in the Commons.

Mr. Knapman's Total Representation System is also remarkably easy to implement. It does not (necessarily) require any alteration of existing boundaries (or of the new parliamentary constituency boundaries which become effective from 1.1.2007). In theory, it could even be introduced in time for the next General Election.

It is just the system we have now - plus top up MP's (with no constituency) who will get their seats after calculation of the electoral deficit (i.e. allocation of 'top up' seats in Parliament to parties whose vote was too spread out across the country to stack up in individual constituencies and win a constituency seat).

freedom & democracy 4 · 19-12-2006, 07:01 PM

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PatrioticBriton · 27-12-2006, 12:39 PM

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19-12-2006, 07:01 PM	#12 (permalink)
freedom & democracy 4 Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Emsworth, full of the EU's Polish imports! Posts: 209	Anyone who wants to can email the 'puppet' prime minister on the link below. Theres no grauntee he will respond, but its worth a go to tell the 'puppet' prime minister what you think of the him and the EU. http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page821.asp

27-12-2006, 12:39 PM	#13 (permalink)
PatrioticBriton Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 108	I don't care about the US. The Americans don't run us, the EU does. America is our #1 ally.

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