Now that Brexit is a fact, the EU is veering back to its social-democratic roots. The rich and the big companies are taxed more so they can help out with problems caused by Covid and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The big oil companies appear to get taxed more so the profiteers' income can partly be used for supporting families hit hard by inflation. Minimum wage increases are tied to increases seen by the middle income groups.

Hip hip hooray. The winner-take-all UK is now outside the EU and cannot drag it down anymore.

What is so bad about winner-take-all?

The essential instrument is competition for the sake of competition. It is the worst form of capitalism one can imagine. By eliminating representation for up to 49.9% of the voters, the winners get more, having to share less with all.

Now, in the EU, we only have nations left that are either fully proportional (all are represented by their own votes) or a mixture of proportional with winner-take-all (which is smart for large nations, so they don't have twenty parties pulling on the political center, but just four, five or six parties).

The UK and the USA have that nasty two-party system that suppresses people and that discriminates in the voting booth. These folks are pushed down further than anywhere else and they drink the kool-aid that their representatives are there for them, while in reality their politicians do nothing at all (see gun regulation and abortion -- nothing).

'A Republic, if you can keep it'

The Founding Fathers were very smart, but we didn't keep the republic they provided us.

https://fred-rick.medium.com/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it-9e2990d3ceab