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Jeremy Corbyn addresses meeting on formation of new leftwing party
(www.theguardian.com)
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All it means is that the left's vote gets split and conservatives get back into power
Yeah, we need electoral reform first 🙁
If only Labour hadn't rallied against it.
That's what they say on American subs too lol
Because it is also true there. Any nation with fptp voting will push towards a 2 party system.
You mean it's supposedly possible that the media won't start an even worse smear campaign in continued and unrelenting defence of said system.. I wouldn't hold your breath..
It will only be broken when voters work together to ensure it.
The left as a whole are too willing to divide the vote. So fptp harms us more than the right, as empathy and emotion is a lower effect on their voting intentions. (I am in no way saying PR would end the right, just increase the power of the left to match actual vote share. )
So the only possible way w can change FPTP if for the left to agree voting reform is the primary importance. Everything else must take a back seat to this. And even then it would take a few parliaments before the effect was powerful enough.