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Here is Andy Burnham’s route to save Labour: a new manifesto, a new election and electoral reform (www.theguardian.com)

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If Burnham becomes PM, should he call a new election with electoral reform in his manifesto?

Labour's current options are limited due to the limited manifesto they ran on in 2024.

Of course the risk with a general election is that it could put Farage into number 10 with a Reform/Tory coalition government.

What do you think?

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[–] FarraigePlaisteach@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

We have proportional representation in our country. Specifically, it's PR-STV (all implementations are not equal). It's widely credited for keeping imported culture wars and hysterics at a lower level than other countries in the EU.

It's not a silver bullet, but I would be afraid for any country that stays with FPTP in the the days of the dark-money-to-dark-algorithm pipeline were all witnessing.