Monday, 7 June 2010
Labour and PR
Does the recent election bring the prospects of Labour supporting PR any closer? Hard to say. I think in terms of 'fairness' people inside, and outside, of the party are (or least were) warming to it; but I am not sure the horsetrading after the election will necessarily serve to make it more popular. However, if politics is about anything it is about justice and I still remain wedded to the principle that if say 35% of the people want to vote Labour or Conservative or the Lib Dems or the Greens or whoever they should do so, their vote should be of an equal value and the proportion of votes should translate into roughly the same number of seats. At present we really don't know who people want to vote for. So often now people are voting against, rather than for parties. I also think that some of the worst excesses of governmental decision making may be curbed and I also believe that interest in politics will increase.
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