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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Me in Canada: still bitter Trudeau abandoned this

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Me in the US: :(

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

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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.

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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.

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

AV for Commons, PR for the Lords replacement.

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

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

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