The UK desperately needs a new, sensible, Centre Right party.
But most people have not heard of the Reclaim Party, and of those who have not many know what the party stands for, as North Shropshire proved.
Merging Reclaim with Reform makes sense. But even then the new party would not be winning Parliamentary by-elections or getting MPs elected in a General Election. They need to start local and build up. Getting councillors elected is a realistic possibility.
However, a new third party will not break through and achieve a major contingent of MPs in Parliament until we have proportional representation (PR) for all elections in the UK, as most countries do, instead of our first past the post system.
The maniacal, barnacle-like attachment of the British public to FPTP has produced a bizarre situation, I believe quite intended, whereby the process, from preselection to the parliamentary circus we see before us, leaves all of us of these views essentially unrepresented, parliament remaining dominated by cabalists and the unethical, with zero interest in our roots as a nation.
The evidence from PR in Europe is that whatever you vote for, the government is a slowly evolving collection of the same faces. Either that or it's a civil service caretaker while the politicos argue about slicing the cake. Different, but not better.
ReplyDeleteFirst past the post stopped doing its job when the parties all bought into the globalist agendas on climate, ethnic pollution (as distinct from ethnic cleansing), tax competition and so on.
James, yes there needs to be a major change in our political system if we are ever to drain the swamp.
ReplyDeleteWhichever system is adopted it will be open to abuse because, sinners that we are, people will conspire to subvert it to their own advantage.
Having said that, as usual the least bad option needs to be chosen and on the face of it, Proportional Representation would be the least bad option, but with the proviso that the rules are not set by politicians.
Mr Cameron has a referendum on PR during his coalition government with the LibDems and tainted the idea of adopting it by proposing a bad version of PR. I think that was deliberate and it achieved its purpose, including leaving a bad impression of PR in the minds of the general public. Consequently, having had a referendum on it not so long ago, the main political parties will oppose having another.
So, I'm at a low as to how to bring in change; it's catch 22, we need different parties to represent us in Parliament to make changes but we need the voting system to change to give them a fair chance of winning seats.