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« on: February 05, 2013, 07:13:42 AM »

If New Zealand is anything to go by - and you would probably need a comparable crisis-in-faith in the political system to that which En Zed had in the early 90s for anything to happen at all, so, yeah, we should factor that into things - the two big parties would remain the two big parties. But you would see a huge upsurge in small parties (generally headed by dissident figures from the big parties) in the first couple of elections. They would collectively hold the balance of power. Most would rapidly become very unpopular. Their support would eventually collapse, except for maybe one or two that say (and so sell) things that the big parties don't.
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