Discrepancy Between Electoral Outcomes and Political Representation in Irish Politics

I see no problem with coalitions especially in the social media age. Plenty of western democracies have electoral systems that promote majorities or allow a minority in society to vote for parties that can easily accumulate majorities and they then proceed to wreak havoc by implementing policies beneficial to a tiny section of the population.

If anything, having an electoral system that routinely requires compromise in order to form a government is probably a useful safeguard against the kind of madness we see playing out in other countries.

Need to go back to Edmund Burke. Once anyone is elected to Parliament, their job is to exercise their judgement, not reflect the views on their constituents on every issue. If it were so, we'd probably be still hanging people in most countries.

The person getting 35% of the vote can get elected, whilst 65% did not want them elected. UK shows that FPTP is crap. Most European countries are governed by coalitions.

I'm not saying that is AI generated specious bullshit...

But there's a 98% probability that this is AI generated specious bullshit ;)

Because those larger parties asked them to join the Government and to become government ministers. A better question ask is, why should larger parties who got the majority of support from people, not be allowed form a government with the parties of their choice?

You are coming up with some insane stuff here.

If the Liberal and Labour candidates and voters agree on a huge amount of policy issues, then clearly the 59.3% of voters are being 'robbed' by having a Tory winner. It's a pretty obvious flaw of FPtP.

The extreme example is if 10 centre-ist candidates all poll 9%, and one ultra-extremist candidate (left or right wing) polls 10%, then the extremist wins.

But carry-on - the PRSTV system ain't changing anytime soon so your madness goes nowhere.

I've not labelled you a bot, I have said that your post is AI generated specious bullshit. Pop that into your GPT and it will offer a response more cogent than your OP ;)

That's not a majority, that's a plurality. The majority of the votes here did not vote Tory.

Where did I offer an opinion on your spelling or grammar? Are you saying that your spell check/grammar check amended your draft post to the extent that it is recognised as 98% probability of AI authorship?

You'd best share the name of the software so any students on here can know what to avoid, imagine if scribbr, Grammarly or any of the other tools generated a false positive of 98%?

This is like foundation level politics.........

38.3% is not a majority, it is a plurality

The remaining people....aka.....everyone who didn't vote Tory.......make up 62.2%, which IS A QUALIFIED MAJORITY

The majority of the people are being ignored because the system is set up in an undemocratic way.

Your last line is astonishingly lacking in self awareness. It is far, far easier to manipulate the electorate or interfere with your opponents in a FPTP system.

Here's a scenario:

Imagine you live in a town where there's a proposal to build a piggery right beside the school. 66% of the town don't want it, while 34% do want it and you have two politicians campaigning along those lines (one who does and one who doesn't). If you were the person who wants it, you're most likely gonna lose the vote. So you ask your mate to run on a campaign of "well, okay, we do want it but it has to be a sheep farm instead of pigs" and another to run on "okay, a pig farm is fine, but the operating hours must be X until Y" and a third mate to run on "we'll build the farm but it has to be away from the school".

If those three mates take 11% of voters away from the no side each, the 34% wins and the will of the people is subverted.