1. Their silly campaign finance rules. British campaign finance laws are literally the worst in the Western world, only after the United States. It’s just embarassing.
2. Their First-Past-The-Post voting system. It is a voting system that is designed to create a party duopoly on political power.
Show me the incentives of any political system. I will show you the outcome.
Look the recent British elections. Keir Starmer won 65% of seats in Parliament with only 35% of votes. It’s his country now. He can do whatever he wants for 5 years. Greens, SNP or Reform received millions upon millions of votes. They get very few seats. This is not normal.
Under the Danish voting system, here is what would happen in Britain.
The Reform Party would tell Starmer : “You don’t have a majority Keir. We can allow you to form a government. But in exchange, we want to reduce immigration. And we want a law banning cousin marriage. Do we have a deal ?”
The Green Party would tell Starmer : “You don’t have a majority Keir. We can allow you to form a government. But in exchange, we want to nationalize water companies and a law banning all gambling ads. Do we have a deal?”
This is how it works in Denmark. I feel the overall result is just better.
Seems to track pretty directly to me. Political system that results in less rights and less voice for the people equals less engagement. I mean that’s one to one almost. Particularly when that same system also favors corporations to an absurd degree that exploit workers the breaking point.
This is the logical outcome of liberalism IMO.
This is the logical outcome of two things.
1. Their silly campaign finance rules. British campaign finance laws are literally the worst in the Western world, only after the United States. It’s just embarassing.
2. Their First-Past-The-Post voting system. It is a voting system that is designed to create a party duopoly on political power.
Show me the incentives of any political system. I will show you the outcome.
Look the recent British elections. Keir Starmer won 65% of seats in Parliament with only 35% of votes. It’s his country now. He can do whatever he wants for 5 years. Greens, SNP or Reform received millions upon millions of votes. They get very few seats. This is not normal.
Under the Danish voting system, here is what would happen in Britain.
The Reform Party would tell Starmer : “You don’t have a majority Keir. We can allow you to form a government. But in exchange, we want to reduce immigration. And we want a law banning cousin marriage. Do we have a deal ?”
The Green Party would tell Starmer : “You don’t have a majority Keir. We can allow you to form a government. But in exchange, we want to nationalize water companies and a law banning all gambling ads. Do we have a deal?”
This is how it works in Denmark. I feel the overall result is just better.
I don’t think either of those two things would have any bearing on workplace happiness though.
I aint a fan of a two-party system - I’ll take the slow, stable Danish way any day.
But how is that directly related to disengaged workers?
Seems to track pretty directly to me. Political system that results in less rights and less voice for the people equals less engagement. I mean that’s one to one almost. Particularly when that same system also favors corporations to an absurd degree that exploit workers the breaking point.