Jock Coats on Nostr: I kind of get it for when Labour was an ideologically socialist party, in a sense. ...

I kind of get it for when Labour was an ideologically socialist party, in a sense. But in this age of more "managerial" politics, I would plead with them that decent PR (by which I mean for preference an STV system), would actually tend to make them an almost permanent party of "centre-left" government.

That "coalition is better than opposition", that relatively slowly moving trends in public opinion can be more easily accommodated by coalition that by having these once in a generation dramatic changes of power we've had all my life more or less.

And that, well, the system is unconscionable that gives a party two third of seats for not a lot more than one third of votes. Whoever that party is. And then allows them, more than likely, to top up the unelected chamber to match better. If this were Mugabe's Zimbabwe we'd rightly condemn it as a sham of democracy.