I think we need a party system, largely for the reasons given by SBS and pfr (bloody initials...). Without a decent party system you're in danger of throwing up a Putin or a Xi. I know they pretend to have parties, but they are not bona fide. One lot of pillocks genuinely holding another lot of pillocks to account is rather important I feel. In the perfect world, a Big Wise Person would be like a permanent referee, making sure that neither set of pillocks was cheating. We won't get that so we have to put up with something at least a bit devious and adversarial...