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The issue is how do we get PR into our political system when FPTP favours the main two parties so much. It's less likely to be spoken about than Brexit. I was studying in A level politics and writing essays on it over 25 years ago and here we are today. Lib Dems had a golden opportunity back in the 2010 coalition but screwed that up.Personally, I support PR (IIRC I've put my head above the parapet with my preferred method a month or two ago); and as a matter of principle, I support it. Yes, it means parties like Reform get a bigger voice, but it also means that Green get a bigger voice; and that those voices are proportionate to the size of national opinion - which is a good thing, even for voices I strongly disagree with.
Further, it means more coalitions, more collaboration, less confrontational politics - which can only be a good thing.
And isn't Israeli politics dominated by coalitions? Extreme nationalists part and party to it. And in turn horse trading politics.
Our politics reflects our legal system which is an adversarial system.