Stephen Cole
2019-11-02 19:05:21 UTC
In Richard Tice’s BXP campaign launch speech, he slipped in a remark that I
suspect may inform us a little better with regards Nigel’s true intent
behind his impossible offer to the Tories. Amongst the usual doom and
gloom, anti-EU spiel, Tice did go off on a rant about Britain’s electoral
system and its inherent unfairness to minor/new parties. He said that
millions of voters would be disenfranchised and their votes would not
matter, and that proportional representation would be an aim of The Brexit
Party. To be honest, he has a point; First Past The Post is a ludicrous and
broken system that needs to be scrapped wholesale. In 2015, UKIP took 12.5%
of the national vote (nearly 4 million votes) but only secured one seat.
Whatever you think of UKIP, that is an outrage for democracy. UKIP and
Farage went mental about it at the time and loudly demanded proportional
representation but obviously nothing changed.
But with Tice seeding that concept into his launch speech and Farage
setting up a confrontation with the Tories that is almost custom-made to
frustrate the Brexit that millions of people want, I expect to hear much
more about proportional representation following the election result on
13th December. It might well turn out that Farage is happy to lose the
prize of Brexit Now in exchange for PR Later and the almost certainty of
subsequent BXP seats in the Commons, from which he can then attack for his
favoured catastrophic Brexit in the early to mid 2020s. You heard it here
first, folks!
suspect may inform us a little better with regards Nigel’s true intent
behind his impossible offer to the Tories. Amongst the usual doom and
gloom, anti-EU spiel, Tice did go off on a rant about Britain’s electoral
system and its inherent unfairness to minor/new parties. He said that
millions of voters would be disenfranchised and their votes would not
matter, and that proportional representation would be an aim of The Brexit
Party. To be honest, he has a point; First Past The Post is a ludicrous and
broken system that needs to be scrapped wholesale. In 2015, UKIP took 12.5%
of the national vote (nearly 4 million votes) but only secured one seat.
Whatever you think of UKIP, that is an outrage for democracy. UKIP and
Farage went mental about it at the time and loudly demanded proportional
representation but obviously nothing changed.
But with Tice seeding that concept into his launch speech and Farage
setting up a confrontation with the Tories that is almost custom-made to
frustrate the Brexit that millions of people want, I expect to hear much
more about proportional representation following the election result on
13th December. It might well turn out that Farage is happy to lose the
prize of Brexit Now in exchange for PR Later and the almost certainty of
subsequent BXP seats in the Commons, from which he can then attack for his
favoured catastrophic Brexit in the early to mid 2020s. You heard it here
first, folks!
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