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Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue
PS: Just to be clear, you are disagreeing with my point that Proportional Representation might not be the panacea young Hebdomad hopes it is and that there *might* be more complicated social forces at play.
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PR clearly isnt going to fix everything and make Britain a utopia - mainly because Britain is shit, but also because the whole point of "the good place that is no place" is that it doesnt exist.
Further, denying any change on the grounds that "it wont make society perfect, ergo let not do it" is folly. Whilst your society might never actually reach a utopic ideal, a society that adopts progress and adapts new ideas to improve their current standing is almost certainly going to be a better place to live than a stagnant society that you, T&F, seem to prefer instead. At the end of the day, a society that is
relatively better place to live is ultimately superior to those that arent, whether it is "absolutely perfect" or not.
I believe, with Hebdomad it seems, that FPTP is a very long way from an ideal electoral system due to its many flaws. If you had argued, T&F, that PR would be a bad idea because it would have led to vast political instability such as Italy (which can only seem to manage to have a government once a year), then I reckon that would have been a very valid argument. Although there are obviously ways to avoid the instability associated with PR, as Australia has managed for over 50 years.