Preselection and PM anointing need drastic overhaul

With the awful realisation that Sunpak has it, it’s a good time to look at the dysfunctional systems in the UK.  Farage refers to part of it:

Putting the cart before the horse, the voting systems themselves are fraught. FPTP is close to the worst, where someone with 30% or so gets in and it tends to produce a two horse race, sometimes a third. 

Preferential, the system in Oz, has everyone fill in each box with a number … your fave is 1, the worst in your eyes gets the last number.  Getting it wrong makes the vote informal.  Counters make first preference piles.  Least popular goes out and whoever voted for him/her, those voters’ second prefs see their ballot paper placed on the indicated pile.  And so it proceeds, until there are are two in a simple run-off.

Downside?  Blue and red still end up the final two on the whole.

Proportional is Nigel’s preferred or, as he says in the YT, a hybrid of FPTP and PR.  As for continental systems, e.g. multiple run-offs … open to corruption … which is the next point.  As the US has shown, when even officials and the commission sre deeply corrupt, as they are here, no system will work properly.

To me, the worst aspect is the preselection process, whereby party faithful get to choose whom the candidate will be, hardly ever on merit and usually after the brass parachute someone in for nefarious reasons … the quality of our politicians is truly the pits.  

As for coronations of PMs … say no more.  PMs are so crucial for policy that they need the say of the electorate.  Then comes the little question of the abused Lords.  Of course, the WEF loves it as it is.