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Thread #73264   Message #1427931
Posted By: Bunnahabhain
06-Mar-05 - 07:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: NON-Partisan political comments
Subject: RE: BS: NON-Partisan political comments
Ahhh. one of the old problems....

If you have PR, then the constituency doesn't always get the person, or even the party they mainly voted for.

If you don't have PR, the the goverment doesn't reflect the way the country votes well

And hybred systems, like the one the Scottish Parliment are not much better. The constituancies the MSPs share are so large so as to be useless.

Removing someone if you don't like how they represented you in Parliment is called the next election. Much else is a bit fussy on a local scale.

2. Also, I feel that all candidates should renounce any, and all, political affiliations, except to their constituents, as a pre-condition to being selected.

Well, we did have a large number of legislators independent of the party system. The cross-benchers in the House of Lords, and the civil service.
So The goverment abolishes half the first, and does its best to corrupt the other

Sorry about the thread drift.

It may be worth repeating the old one though.

"Anybody who seeks a position of power should not be considered for it."

Or something like that. I never remember quotes right.