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Yeah no a new election will not save labour.
It may be the right thing mortality wise.
But Def not the best thing for the party. No new manifesto is going to earn trust without a new leader actually making some changes and watching them work.
And the only people who think it would currently be the best thing for the UK. Are the billionaires funding reform. Or the idiots thinking immigration is the cause of all our issues.
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.
What's the point? It's not like any parties ever stick to their manifestos anyway.
Their options aren't limited, because they command a huge majority. That's all that matters, not some made up feels of legitimacy and mandate by the press.
We don't vote for a leader, we vote for constituency MPs. If the leader changes, that doesn't affect the mandate that the MPs were given. They secede that mandate to their party and leadership but people understand that when they vote (or should).
If Labour actually care about electoral reform they should get it done now while they command a huge majority. They then need not fret about Reform in No. 10 because we'll have proportional representation to keep the worst of the worst out.