• mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    The thing I want to see fixed most is our FPTP voting system. I want to remove this dominance that the two parties have on this country. Johnson was bad, but it just as easily have been Corbyn. We need to remove the ease with which extremists can manipulate the system.

    100% agree with this. Not sure how PR in itself will build rail infrastructure 🤷 but I agree with the sentiment.

    • Syldon@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      The rail affects a very small part of the country. Both parties have ignored it for decades.

      I firmly believe that if we do not plug the gap in our voting system, then the next extremist group to gain power will be very much worse than what we see now. They will take what they have learned to abuse and expand on it. We may never have an election again after that without a civil war. I am not overly confident about Starmer, if I was being honest. He is being more than a little underhanded with the rank and file of the party. I get why he took on the Corbynites, especially with Corbyn being a thorn for his own agenda. But Starmer seems to have taken it upon himself to oust anyone with a different opinion. Removing opposing views is not a good thing for a party. That was exactly how Johnson ran his ship.

      So yes the transport system is important. It generates cash for the country after all. I just don’t view in the same light as others do.