nigelswift wrote: IMO the "AV = weak government" assertion is a bit of an exaggerated slur by the Tories. Throughout the world coalitions work, people make them work and mostly they don't collapse straight away. It's us that have the peculiar system.
GAH! Because the rest of their parlimentary system is geared to function with coalition governments. Ours isn't, not even remotely, internally its still geared to FPTP. Who selects cabinet ministers ? Who selects sub-committees ?, etc, etc.
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