2015 - 2019 was a toxic, dysfunction and turbulent time in UK politics due to the slim referendum and the resultant fall out but everything after 2019 was par for the course and within the realms of what would expect.
FPTP brings stability to the government with a strong majority, the system has never been about having a stable executive or treating the PM as a presidential type figure who was spent to be in power for whole terms.
Its only really in modern times because of the undue influence of american politics in media, people equate the resignation of a PM as this major event in similar terms and impact as the resignation of a President. 1 or 2 executive changes are quite common within the life of a government term
I don’t regard PM changes as inherently toxic, but with France for example, users on this forum constantly praise the feistiness and willingness of its people to protest without actually digging deeper as to the issues that bring it to a head. We’ve never seen the equivalent the yellow vests protests or the political disclosure that comes with it. The UK government has never had to float a ban of far right/neo nazis parties that have a more than nominal chance of gaining legislative power.
At the end of the day, the political environment and discourse is quite mild in the UK compared to many continental governments, a big part of that is because the FPTP promotes moderation.
Sure that’s correct the national vote share doesn’t correlate to seats, that’s a national view to what essentially a local election to return an MP to Parliament. I agree FPTP doesn’t provide a 100% true reflection of voting intention, it largely does especially as it relates to majority ideological things the country faces whilst providing a clear view wrt accountability and giving the executive the power to act decisively.
I think your view is a little binary, parties amalgamate because of the nature of the system but parties exist within parties. There a high level of political pluralism within the two party structure which means people vote for whoever best represents their own ideology and even before as it applies to selection.
So much of British politics and FPTP is about indirect effect. It just the nature of PR advocates to minimise the localism aspect FPTP and assert thar votes are “wasted”. If Labour wins Bristol central but the Greens are few points in second, the people who voted green still have influence and sway over their MP.
Sure, in a literal sense but we’re a representative democracy, we don’t decide things on plural terms popular vote has no bearing on anything in a GE.
Reviewing most GEs in retrospect its easy to see why particular results were returned in light of the issues at the day. That’s more my point
