gordondaviesmoustache
Well-Known Member
Labour pronised to look ar electoral reform in their 1997 manifesto, but then shelved it when they won a whopping majority and the upshot of that decision is that they’ve been out of power for 12 years, the daft cunts.Never might be a ‘wee’ bit strong. If we look at recent history, then we can see that without Scotland, Labour would actually still have won in 1997, in 2001, and also in 2005. It’s less then about Labour ’never’ winning without Scotland and more about Labour not being able to win a sizeable majority again. Without the promise of Scottish seats, Labour therefore needs to win more seats in England which means it has had to move further to the right to appeal to English voters (hence the Brexit stance), but that makes it even less attractive in Scotland and upsets it’s traditional left in England and Wales. We can see the bind Starmer finds himself in now.
All of this means Labour needs to plan its future by envisaging a Westminster without Scottish seats and why, if it can form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in the next Parliament, it should legislate electoral reform. That change would make it more likely to be in government not less.
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