13-04-2020, 00:33
The UK essentially suffers from the same problem the USA has - two party politics!!. I know there are more parties in the UK, but the Government is formed from either Labour or the Tories virtually everytime. The Labour party spend far too much time on the left fringes of their policies, just like the Democrats are in danger of doing over here, and that has made them unelectable for a lot of ordinary people. Of course this will never change in either country due to the way the votes are counted and seats allocated. In the UK, FPTP doesn't give any credit to those parties in 2nd place etc, in the USA the Electoral College format means if you get one more vote than your opponent in CA then you get all their 55 EC votes. Neither of these systems lets a 3rd party in to split the two main parties. There is little to no appetite to change this in either countries either!!