UKIP's leader is openly racist!
Oh Jeez, reading some of the ignorant posts here is exasperating sometimes. But then i don't expect any real debate from the usual shills
UKIP's leader is openly racist!
Oh Jeez, reading some of the ignorant posts here is exasperating sometimes. But then i don't expect any real debate from the usual shills
Were ukip the only people to have a financially sound and approved by a third party manifesto/budget whilst all the other parties were to scared?
Perfectly fine? If you're insane/have no idea. People choose between candidates, and the best of them gets picked (arguably), but think for just a second who is put forward in terms of the candidate for each party. You could have a seat that's always going to be a Tory/Labour marginal, but where the choice is between a candidate picked by Tory HQ vs a candidate picked by Labour HQ.
- Macanese "d'Hondt method" (greatly favors small parties) [4]
- Sainte-Laguë method, LR-Hare (slightly favor very small parties when unmodified, if there is no election threshold)
- LR-Droop (very slightly favors larger parties)
- D'Hondt method (slightly favors larger parties)
- LR-Imperiali (greatly favors larger parties)
Has this turned into the is ukip racist thread
You claimed FPTP was better in terms of candidate selection, when it's evidently not given our current system is often a joke and the public has no choice in who stands, then with PR you can easily have a system like open primaries where the public choose who gets on the list, then which party they vote for. You're wrong on this point - why can you never accept that? You're like a Castiel dupe account, or something .
The point is there is a myriad of PR methods used, so we can pick and choose the elements we want. With your SNP example - where you're either desperately clutching at straws, or are demonstrating a seriously poor understanding - we'd probably have regions within Scotland, or Scotland as a massive region (less desirable for a UK Parliamentary election), so say the SNP get 55% of the vote in Scotland, they'd get 55% of the MPs. It wouldn't be a problem that nationally they poll more like 3.5%.
I've never said one is absolutely better than the other. Clearly there are pros and cons with each. I was saying that the specific claim you made about candidate selection was wrong. It's simple.
They don't have a pure national system of PR. They have a mixed member system. Under the German system the SNP would not get zero seats - nowhere near. They'd get a shed load of seats. Again highlighting how much you're clutching at straws and are debating about something you don't know about .
No, I don't. I've said that one system isn't absolutely better than the other and accept most rational people think that, but there are varying conceptions of PR and we could pick and choose elements we want.
The key thread of this 'debate' was where you were wrong on a specific issue, then I pointed it out, then you desperately tried to escape rather than saying, 'ah, true. I was wrong tbf'.