Sir Keir Starmer seems to have adopted the same attitude to his party's conference as Conservative leaders have long regarded the annual Tory rallies. Anthony Tuffin of Make Votes Matter writes;
The Labour Party Conference voted for PR today! That’s the good news.
But, as Sir Winston Churchill said 80 years ago, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
The bad news is that Sir Keir Starmer has said he won’t put it in the party manifesto for the next general election and, even if he did, there’s no guarantee that he would honour it if Labour won. Some of us are old enough to remember Labour’s broken PR promise of 1997. Nevertheless, it is a step in the right direction.
Our next target with Labour must be to have the Conference decision endorsed in the manifesto. I expect the PR organizations like the Electoral Reform Society and Make Votes Count will produce ideas for that but, in the meantime and especially if you are a Labour member or at least supporter, you may like to congratulate the party on the conference resolution and urge it to put PR in the manifesto.
Is Labour democratic or not? Does Labour believe it is right for a party with only about 2 out of 5 votes to form the Government? Will Labour accept its own conference’s democratic decision?
You can read more about the resolution at:
- www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63036884 and
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