There is beauty in diversity, despite the political system actively seeking to pit us against one another. They know the two big dominant parties aren’t working, and that no single party has a monopoly of wisdom. But because of our first-past-the-post system it needs 336,000 for every Lib Dem MP and a ludicrous 866,000 to elect Caroline Lucas for Brighton Pavilion. To beat the Tories, we need to beat the system, and that means being smart about working together. Underlying all this is the need for Labour to back proportional representation at its September conference.

Source: The Guardian May 29, 2021 08:00 UTC