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Yeah, and more than once I've had someone think "minority government" must just refer to a dictatorship. To be completely fair it is unintuitive that a minority government always holds a majority. So, I just cleared it up right off the bat.
Two party does indeed suck. We have a somewhat less aggressive version in Canada. IMO the whole world should move towards the Norwegian system, with simple proportional rep and fixed terms to stave off snap elections.
I like the French system. Each constituency is represented by one person who got a majority. In the UK you also get your own representative, but they could win with 20% of the vote if everyone else has less (First Past The Post)...so in the french system you have two rounds to make sure that a majority of people don't end up represented by someone they despise.
Proportional representation usually does not give you a representative, you have very little idea who your vote is electing after the first and second candidates...which is annoying when you look down the list and see these interloper nobodies who end up being someone's cousin that nobody's ever heard of and has never been seen in public.
Yeah, but the thing is, even politicians that seem nice are actually just good at their job, which is to seem nice and get your vote. Some also are interested in policy, but it's optional.
As a person who works with politicians sometimes, they're salespeople, and they're a necessary evil (even ones that are personally okay). A system which de-emphasises them is a feature IMO, and party list does that very well, on top of just being dead simple.
That is fine, MPs surround themselves with influent unmarketable secretaries and advisors they need e.g. Dominic Cummings, but the elected officials need to be the face of the team. That is usually how ministers do not need to be experts in a subject, it is their deputies who do the actual technical work and usually never get elected, that is not their job, but sometimes they actually will.