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What happens if there's a snap GE, and we end up in a situation where no two parties can form a Government, even if they were willing to enter in coalition? In other words, where no logical combination of parties can deliver a majority? What then?
Perhaps someone could blow a whistle and the 650 MPs then get 72H to try and assemble themselves in whatever way they like such that one group, led by whoever they like (or several co-leaders, for giggles) can muster a majority. Completely tear up party lines, in other words.
Effectively a Government of National Unity, but one completely disregarding the political groupings that exist in ordinary times.
And after a few years of things going swimmingly well under the GNU (because it's formed of the most sensible MPs from all parties, rather than a monolithic partisan block of groupthink MPs) we could shutter the traditional parties and be done with their damaging stain forever.
You could then have a future democratic system in which multiple candidates compete in each region to be that region's most useful, sensible, positive contributor to the ongoing-but-ever-changing GNU.
Or, you could just rerun the GE again and hope the numbers fall slightly differently. 😉
Boring.
Boring.
