The only justification for not doing this is protectionism. Starmer is placing party above country. We can see how damaging the Tories are. I do not want to see their likes again.
The only justification for not doing this is protectionism. Starmer is placing party above country. We can see how damaging the Tories are. I do not want to see their likes again.
I support PR, but I remember telling people on the left about how PR would have meant UKIP getting a bunch of seats in 2015.
Suddenly, they weren’t so keen on it.
Getting UKIP into parliament would have been great! First, the numpties who votes for them would feel represented. That is a good thing. Second, we could have ignored them instead of the tories feeling threatened by them to a point of swinging towards Brexit. Thirdly, their lack of platform (other than “EU bad”) would have been made public.
This is how extreme, fringe parties die - sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Instead we got the Tories. FPTP has allowed a fascist government in. There is no getting away from that.
Err… It would have been a Con-UKIP coalition under PR.
Also, your argument for PR isn’t going to be very successful if it’s based purely on trying to keep a party out.
Also, don’t go for the tedious “fascist” label. We’re not on Twitter here.
We’ve had a Conservative-ukip coalition since 2015. With PR the progressive parties would have had enough power to quickly nip the Conservatives insanity in the bud.
No, UKIP-Con would not be a majority.
https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/how-the-2019-election-results-could-have-looked-with-proportional-representation/
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/how-would-parliament-look-under-proportional-representation
We are a liberal majority country. It is FPTP that gives us regressive right wing governments.