Peter Hitchens

@ClarkeMicah ↗

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A defenc eof 'First Past the Post'. Any conservative who supports PR ( as so many nowadays foolishly do) is signing his movement's own death warrant. //hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2015/05/on-legitimacy-and-saving-fptp.html — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 29, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, thank heaven for that, .@ThreeJacques. Rousseau's ideas were terrible. The virtue of FPTP is that it *can* (it doens't always) lead to strong decisive government, But it also enables the population to dismiss that government. PR does not allow that. . — PolitiTweet.org

@polytixs @ClarkeMicah @Regardermonamis There is no such thing as a "fair" voting system. All of them are gamed in… https://t.co/WOivNXCq7Z

Posted Dec. 29, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/4 .@sketchblog 'Admit' it? I'm not confessing guilt, but stating a fact - that *a* conservatve *party* (which the Tories are not) will not win a majority in a PR system. Why not? The left is historically divided in this country between Liberals and Socialists... — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah So you admit First Past the Post or Winner Takes All us the only way the Tories win

Posted Dec. 29, 2022