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  Political Parties devise an agreed programme to place before the electorate and if elected those who gain power are expected to adhere to that programme and cooperate to put it in place. Within that there is room for some principaled objection to detail. Before the election there is debate and discussion on devising that programme for Government and in the British system this is where the broad coalitions that comprise our two major parties have their say.
  
  I find that highly democratic. More so than in those countries that are multiple party systems where no one party and policy programme carries a majority in its Parliament and where the debate on the Government programme comes after an election while trying to put together a coalition. In the UK we know what programme we will get from a winning Party before we vote.
  
  Our system of political Parties is a practical and simpler way of governing than alternatives.

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