Ian Dunt

Probably not.

And so you pick whichever party is most likely to do it.

And in some seats, like where I grew up, it's really obvious that that's the Liberal Democrats.

In some seats, it's really obvious that that's Labour.

But in a lot of seats...

it's not obvious which party it is.

And so the danger of that system is you get really split, particularly progressive voting.

You know, you'll get 30% for Labour, 30% for the Greens, 35% for the Conservatives, right?

And even though in that constituency there is a clear majority that are progressive voters, the minority Conservative Party can get in simply because they're monopolising one side of the vote.

It's a really dangerous and very, very irrational way to organise your democracy.

Ian, over here.

The liberal thing is very annoying to me.

Having written a book called How To Be A Liberal, it's very frustrating to me that they've used that word for the party.

Liberalism is the belief in the freedom of the individual.

And the distinction between it and most other political ideologies is that that is an instruction on how to think, but not what to think.

So for instance, if you have a right-wing view – and there are right-wing liberals, right?

You can think, well, what is the freedom of the individual?

Freedom of the individual is that I don't get taxed, right?

The government doesn't get to take my money.

And a left-wing view on that is, well, actually we do have to interfere in individuals' property rights because that's how, for instance, we create good education, good health outcomes.