A problem with the FPtP voting system is that it does not motivate politicians to be the best that they can be. Instead they are motivated only to be better than the opposition. This is damaging because it means that a politician will encourage voters to focus on the faults of their opponent, rather than what they, themselves are offering to voters. This is very damaging to the integrity of politicians and makes for a very bad system of risk and reward for them.
It is best if politicians, in fact all professions, to strive to be the best that they can and if this means denigrating their opponent in the most effective way, this is not ideal.
To have good, positive politics we should have proportional representation, where politicians seek to attract votes, instead of trying to discourage votes for their opposite number...
We, the people are waiting for Proportional Representation! PR would be good for the country.
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