I remember Gautam gave a good explanation of why the US has two main political parties (even if they swap positions over time) when many European nations have coalition-based governments with several parties receiving substantial support.

The UK is basically a two-party system (is it first-past the post vs proportional voting that causes this?) but which parties have changed over time.

Now that we have a powerful third party (The Lib-Dems) the situation would seem to be unstable.

Could the two main parties become Labour and Lib-Dem with the Tories reduced to the distant third that the Liberals (predecessors of the Lib-Dems) occupied for most of the last century?

Ironically one of the central tenets of Lib-Dem policy is electoral reform to proportional representation...

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