I agree.
Much as you have claimed in another thread recently to be a centrist, on most issues you are no more a centrist than I am. You are very much a creature of the right as I am of the left.
But the current stitch up that is FPTP shuts you and others like you out as effectively as it does me and others like me.
Under a truly democratic system, you lot would have significant representation in parliament. As would my lot. And the establishment parties are scared to death of that. So how we get them to concede genuine electoral reform is going to be a problem, yet somehow in the interests of democracy they need to be made to do it.
My only slim hope is a hung parliament with Labour the largest party and the other parties that might support them insisting upon electoral reform as a condition. Starmer is so clearly desperate for the trappings of power that he just might consider that.
It is a slim hope though because it is looking like a Labour landslide right now. And if that happens he will never concede the necessary reform. But even if we get a hung parliament, he might try to struggle through as the leader of a minority party hoping for a quick new election to win a majority, just to avoid having to concede PR. Plus in any case when the Lib Dems had the chance in 2010 they failed to make PR a condition of coalition but settled for so much less for the trappings of office, a squalid little compromise - to use their own words - which the people were never going to back. They might well cave in again for the trappings of office.
So the chances of getting the necessary reform are slim indeed. But there is no hope for either of us - nor for democracy itself - unless we get it. How we make that happen is the million dollar question. Voting only for candidates who back such a reform is something people like us can do even if they are no hoper candidates, basically anyone but Labour or Tories. But there are not yet enough of us. We are still vastly outnumbered by the common sheeple, who dumbly consider only Labour or Tories. If they think about it at all they swallow the establishment parties' lines about a vote for anyone else being a wasted vote, both parties cynically highlighting the anti-democratic nature of the voting system to get the sheeple to vote for the only parties insistent upon maintaining it.
And yet, for all the millions out there who are utterly disgusted with the establishment and sick to death of the economic, social, and political status quo, a vote for either Labour or the Tories is the ultimate wasted vote.
