Starmer’s promise of new approach to politics & democracy, where power is given away, is welcome (& long-standing @TheGreenParty policy) but elephant in room is *still* his failure to support fairer voting system, without which power remains concentrated in handful of swing seats
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1610947568460075009
@CarolineLucas
Starmer is known to support PR and has made speeches on the subject. However the next GE will have to be held on the old system. Once in power, Labour will have more pressing issues for several years I fear. Tony Blair also wanted PR but when he put it to Cabinet, only Robin Cook supported him. There is a danger of withering on the vine now as then, but the time to push really hard is probably 4 years away or more.
@CarolineLucas UK needs PR to fix our broken democracy. The Scottish system works well in my view.