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It doesn't matter if you're a Labor fan, the good times won't last. If you don't install proportional representation this will come back to bite you in the ass as it has before.

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[–] pseudonym@monyet.cc 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Me in Canada: still bitter Trudeau abandoned this

[–] Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Kyatto@leminal.space 6 points 1 month ago

I'll cry with you trashboat, we're on the same.. trashy boat, as it were.

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

Honestly the biggest issue in the US is the 2-party system, which means whoever has the most representation of the two basically runs the country uncontested.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I seem to remember Labour in the UK promising proportional representation in the 1990s, only to win a landslide in 1997 and never mention it again.

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

LibDems? We did vote for AV, and the 51% idiots voted against it.

AV for Commons, PR for the Lords replacement.

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

What I find infuriating is that this same meme also happened at the provincial level in Quebec in 2018.

[–] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Me in Australia: finally something we're ahead of everyone on