FPTP boneheads love to cite "it keeps extremist parties out of parliament" as a reason for its existence as a far right party frogmarches to the threshold of acquiring enough votes to approach "government forming" party status and i think anyone who ever used that as a justification needs swirlied
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At least with PR on current polling they'd be relegated to the opposition vs a centre-left coalition.
It’s almost like extremist parties getting popular is a symptom of something else, not the voting system. People with power’s real worry is they’ll have to work harder to gain and wield power. If they don’t get power, they never actually care who does.