<div dir="ltr">The article is really interesting in that it tells us ... "if you do it once this time" you'll never be able to do it again so easily ... "it" referring to using FPTP to kill FPTP ... <div><br></div><div>After that any major change will be very difficult BECAUSE the very advantage of stable government means that government it not readily changed which may become a disadvantage</div><div><br></div><div>It's a bit scary and not something we PR supporters have thought of. If coalition government parties get filled up with a lot of dead wood, entitled politicians, it can be difficult for the voters to threaten the government with throwing them out, because there may just be more of the same from the different parties to take their place ... the activist swing voters lose their power to change things quickly</div><div><br></div><div>One can see this a bit by observing the EU with its huge cadre of entitled politicians and unelected officials forcing member states to do their will (e.g. immigration policy) and causing them to want to leave as in Brexit</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 February 2017 at 00:03, Jon Bathmaker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon.bathmaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">jon.bathmaker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto">"Don’t let Liberals who say they support your
cause off the hook. Play tough. Play the long game," says Ian
Brodie, former chief of staff to prime minister Harper, on how
those who still want electoral reform can learn from history,
and work the system.<br>
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinon-ian-brodie-electoral-reform-1.3977906" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/news/<wbr>opinion/opinon-ian-brodie-<wbr>electoral-reform-1.3977906</a><br>
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