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that the concept of 5-year-fixed term parliaments, especially in a non-presidential system where there is no separation between the parliament and the head of government, is EXTREMELY undemocratic?

I could perhaps understand having 2- or 3-year fixed-term parliaments, but 5 years? Just a way of ensuring that a totally unstable coalition between Dave the Prat and Nick 'Ramsay Macdonald' Clegg can stay in office come hell or high water, when it wouldn't by the normal democratic process. (And personally that I'll be unrepresented by some Tory twit who won by *176 votes*, for the next *five years*! Though that latter sort of problem may be reduced if we do get some form of PR..)

I think this, especially being introduced now, is a way of restricting public choice and the right to sack our leaders, and that we should fight to at least have a referendum on it.