TottsFeb 26

My friend @Lazarou

Made a very profound point upon noticing whom the Labour Party seems to be most attacking: the Green Party, that is

He said, "The Labour Party are more concerned about another left wing party, then they are about a racist party."

Once you see this, you can never unsee this.

Gosh!

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@Geri @Lazarou This is not a profound point. This is how you fight elections under First Past The Post. The Green leaflets spent more time attacking Labour than Reform too.
Show threadTottsFeb 27

@diffrentcolours @Lazarou no, with respect, you are missing the point here.

What naturally SHOULD be happening is a left wing party, or a party that claims to be left wing, should be attacking Reform, a right wing party and not another left wing party

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Show threadWorld Basement ClassicFeb 27
@Geri @Lazarou That is what would happen if we had a preferential voting system. We don't, we have a system where parties competing for an overlapping pool of voters are incentivised to attack each other and ignore parties with distant voter pools.
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@diffrentcolours @Geri @Lazarou And we have that voting system solely because the Labour party chooses to keep it. The Greens (and Lib Dems and SNP) have been consistently in favour of changing it for years/decades. A couple of years ago even Reform said they were in favour, though this was before they were 1st in the polls.

So yes this is an inevitable consequence of the rules — and Labour chose the rules. The belief that the voting system can't be changed may be a load-bearing part of Labour's perennial tactical vote.
Feb 27 at 10:32amWeb
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@greytheearthling @Geri @Lazarou Yep. We had a chance to eliminate tactical voting in the 2011 Referendum, and half the Labour party decided it was more important to give Nick Clegg a bloody nose than support their own manifesto commitment for preference voting.

If I had money and no job I'd be running a grassroots campaign for electoral reform; ERS are too tied up in the Westminster bubble.