How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George Monbiot
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Labour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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?

  • SpaceShort@feddit.uk
    61·
    11 days ago

    Right now, we should:

    1. Vote for other parties than Labour in opinion polls, that is, for genuinely progressive parties
    2. Vote for other parties than Labour in local elections

    We should drive momentum away from Labour far ahead of the next general election such that the general public view an alternative coalition as more likely to win a general election than Labour and so encourage a broad switch.

      • kux@lemm.ee
        1·
        10 days ago

        trump in our case would be farage probably. i think the uk has a greater chance of that not happening due to the wider choice of alternatives, plaid cymru in wales and the snp in scotland may well save the english who are quite tory by nature, but the split there with harder right going with reform and softer right going to the lib dems (as likely caused labour’s broad and shallow support last time) might work again