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Graham Simpson
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Advocate of proportional representation and progressive politics. Humanist. Anti Brexit!
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With PR if a majority vote for the extreme right they win, with our system they would only need a third of the vote to win.

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True - but FPTP normally benefits broad parties, whilst PR enables extremists to determine composition of coalition govts in specific circumstances And in our system the winning party must gain support across the country I see merit in PR - just not a route to acheiving it so it is academic

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Graham Simpson
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Advocate of proportional representation and progressive politics. Humanist. Anti Brexit!
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