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For a @UKLabour majority win in 2024, on its own, we need a net seat gain of - 140 seats.
For @UKLabour to stop a Tory majority (as part of an electoral alliance based on PR & constitutional reform) - needs a combined net gain of - 40 seats.
You do the math....
For @UKLabour to stop a Tory majority (as part of an electoral alliance based on PR & constitutional reform) - needs a combined net gain of - 40 seats.
You do the math....
Just to reiterate, whilst the there pragmatic party political reasons to adopt PR & rad const reform - it’s also the right thing to do democratically.
Let’s be really clear. With Scotland where it is electorally - a 140 seat Labour gain in 2024 would require a swing larger than that achieved in 1945. An election that took place off of the back of five years of @UKLabour already effectively, running the country.
The #CrisisOfDemocracy: the ClimateEmergency; surveillance capitalism, the rise of the nativist authoritarian right; the guilted age of wealth and power inequality - is a ticking clock. We don’t have the luxury of waiting 15 years for transformative politics.
Find out more here on how we begin to deal with this conundrum and play our part inside @UKLabour :
http://www.lovesocialism.org.uk/about-us/ https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-party-love-socialism-left-progressive-b1762702.html
http://www.lovesocialism.org.uk/about-us/ https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-party-love-socialism-left-progressive-b1762702.html
A timely revisit I think @jemgilbert for those wanting a deeper understanding of broader electoral alliance principles and poss workings. https://www.compassonline.org.uk/publications/the-progressive-alliance-why-labour-needs-it/
