[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

Not for me arista
Curtice has his own agenda.

Voting changes are wanted.
By voters, by all other Parties except the Cons.

I will push all I can to persuade Labour to adopt PR.
It would win an election I believe and have the support of every Party elected to Westminster.
Obviously not the Cons who don't believe in fairer voting and only want absolute power for their own extreme policy implementation.

It needs one of the 2 main Parties to accept PR.
Only Labour could be likely to.
PR in part is used in ALL other elections across the UK, except still for local and general elections.

I don't expect Cons to embrace it.
The only Party of all Parties not to want it.
Over 80% of Labour members want it.
Voters of Labour and other Parties too, ( not the Cons obviously).
Plus all other Parties.
Crikey even likely the DUP in N Ireland.

Curtice has his own agenda on things but I wholly disagree with him on this.

It has to be stopped that Parties can take really large overall majorities and govern with only around the support of 4 (+) of every 10 voters.
Thereby riding over the wishes and votes of the majority of voters.
That is now NOT the right kind of democracy.

Up to a quarter of voters now rarely support either of the 2 main Parties.
Their votes counting for nothing.
That's NOT a fair democracy any longer.

The thing with PR though is that it wouldn't work with the current parliamentary system. We don't vote for the PM, or even the government - we vote for who we want to represent our constituency in the House of Commons. A PR system wouldn't be voting for a local MP.