George Monbiot suggests that Labour shouldn’t be supported because they’re now pushing right-wing policies, in his view.
So he thinks people should tactically support progressive parties who support electoral reform (Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru), which may hopefully then lead to electoral reform, so that we end up with proportional representation. Then Brits will have more choices than effectively just two parties for future elections.
Thoughts?
Doesn’t STV require a reworking of the whole system? I.e electing more than one MP per constituency? We had the 2011 AV referendum which failed miserably, i still remember the disgusting ‘this premature baby needs an incubator, not a new voting system’ adverts… I often wonder what things would be like had it succeeded.
You would need to group up the districts and maybe add extra seats to the parliament to ensure the most proportionality as possible. As in Ireland the districts contain 3-5 seats each.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI