A modest proposal

[andrewducker]

The Conservatives believe that a hung parliament would be bad for Britain.

There's a simple solution to that.

If they removed themselves from the race then the chances of the result not being clear-cut would drop to near-zero.

Comments

[makyo.livejournal.com]

Lots of politicians (mainly Labour and Conservative) have been issuing dire warnings of the drawbacks and dangers of a hung parliament recently. I find myself wondering what the hell they expect us to do about it. There's precious little that an individual voter can do to affect the electoral outcome in a single constituency, much less the entire country. Do they want us, the electorate, to have a big chat about it beforehand, decide between us who's going to actually win, and then vote accordingly?

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Or they could elect all woman so no one in Parliament would be hung at all. (It's a bad joke but I couldn't resist.)

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

It sounds like they're taking a tactic from the USian Rethuglicans: obstruct, obstruct, obstruct, and blame the other people.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

It's completely loathsome the way the Conservatives and right-wing media are scaremongering this. Particularly given that they are actually having the cheek to advise tactical voting to avoid it happening when the reason people want to see a hung parliament is to see electoral reform and with a different electoral system this, er, wouldn't happen.

The base fact that no one seems to be saying (and I've been watching a lot of news programmes) is that in popular terms we are now a three-party country, and FPTP bipartianism doesn't work for a three party country. Surely this is childsplay to understand? I can only assume that, like the Media Giants whose pockets the Big Two reside, they've decided to stick their heads in the sand and try to stop the tide from coming in.

Am I the only person who...

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

...when I hear the term "hung parliament" think; that's a bit drastic, but I guess they had it coming after the expenses scandal?

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

But your suggestion would call for Statesmen (more interested in the commonweal than in Political Dominance), who seem to be (sadly) lacking, in the modern world.

I rather like the idea of a hanged Parliament -- but then, I've always felt a certain sympathy/empathy with Guy Fawkes. Failing that, I'd go for electing all-women -- who are generally, in my experience, far more Practical than men.