It’s simple really, the party is more important than the country according to some. Kier starmer is ahead in the polls and doesn’t want to say something too “scary”, so he doesn’t say anything at all , or for most issues he just sticks to the status quo.
Proportional representation is a good idea, it means no more safe seats and smaller parties will get more of a say in our democracy but the awful thing is we need the bigger parties who will lose out to agree to it.
They are putting party first before country.
Starmer being attacked by the hard left/right as much as he is right now tells me he is on the right track to get labour into power.
Like this is important with the state of the country right now.
In 2005 Blair won 355 seats with 35.2% of the vote. Michael Howard won 198 seats with 32.4% of the vote. Turnout was 61.4%. Essentially just over 20% of the total electorate voted Labour and got Blair that majority with 700,000 votes between the Tories and Labour.
Whilst I support PR personally neither the Conservatives or Labour will ever back it. When they are in opposition they will just wait to win again, when they do win they re draw the electoral boundaries to suit themselves.
If either Labour or the Conservatives backed PR they would be unlikely to govern outside of a coalition ever again. It isn’t logical for them to shoot themselves in the foot like that it is just reality.
I am for PR but I can see why Starmer doesn’t want it. They are finally projected to win again after waiting over a decade. If they win they will redraw the electoral boundaries to give themselves another two terms. They don’t need PR to win and FPTP isn’t a system which holds politicians accountable in the same way PR does. I can’t think Starmer’s Labour would get left wing votes and environmental votes, if everyone’s vote mattered. People who will vote for him because they dislike the tories would vote Green, Lib Dem etc instead under PR.
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It’s simple really, the party is more important than the country according to some. Kier starmer is ahead in the polls and doesn’t want to say something too “scary”, so he doesn’t say anything at all , or for most issues he just sticks to the status quo.
Proportional representation is a good idea, it means no more safe seats and smaller parties will get more of a say in our democracy but the awful thing is we need the bigger parties who will lose out to agree to it.
They are putting party first before country.
Starmer being attacked by the hard left/right as much as he is right now tells me he is on the right track to get labour into power.
Like this is important with the state of the country right now.
In 2005 Blair won 355 seats with 35.2% of the vote. Michael Howard won 198 seats with 32.4% of the vote. Turnout was 61.4%. Essentially just over 20% of the total electorate voted Labour and got Blair that majority with 700,000 votes between the Tories and Labour.
Whilst I support PR personally neither the Conservatives or Labour will ever back it. When they are in opposition they will just wait to win again, when they do win they re draw the electoral boundaries to suit themselves.
If either Labour or the Conservatives backed PR they would be unlikely to govern outside of a coalition ever again. It isn’t logical for them to shoot themselves in the foot like that it is just reality.
I am for PR but I can see why Starmer doesn’t want it. They are finally projected to win again after waiting over a decade. If they win they will redraw the electoral boundaries to give themselves another two terms. They don’t need PR to win and FPTP isn’t a system which holds politicians accountable in the same way PR does. I can’t think Starmer’s Labour would get left wing votes and environmental votes, if everyone’s vote mattered. People who will vote for him because they dislike the tories would vote Green, Lib Dem etc instead under PR.