[jambutty]

Originally Posted by Cyfr

Any political system will have parties. Parties are simply a loose alignment of people with similar thinking, and you're always going to get people who agree with each other on lots of issues.

Parties are not a ‘loose’ arrangement of people with similar thinking. They are a tight formation of people under one banner who have to vote how the party requires in most cases.

People agreeing on lots of issues means that they can disagree on some.

So if one person agrees with points one to ten someone else might agree with them except for points two and five. Another person could agree with all but point nine and so on. So when it comes to a vote on a point the MP could vote for the point that he agrees with or vote against the point if he disagrees with it. Much more democratic.

The current system of political parties and the method of voting favours the big two and keeps one of them in office to the exclusion of the rest.

It does not give any other party even a smell of a chance of influencing decisions.