Seems to me that most elections in mature democracies are decided by the 5 - 10% of swing voters who sit on the fence for whatever reason. The politicians therefore spend all their time fighting for this non-partisan middle ground. The result of this is that they all end up sounding the same and taking the support of their ideological membership for granted and becoming uninteresting to a growing number of people, hence reducing turn out figures. I don't think forcing people to vote would make this situation any better as the whims of people would become even more influential.

The UK three party system nearly always means that the winning party and leader never has either a majority support of the population, nor even of those who bothered to vote.

I think it very advisable to restrict the powers of these people who are voted in on a whim by a minority of people.

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