Labour Leadership 2016

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dst2 in reply to @andyp

Has Labour said why they imposed a whip on this?

John Harris @johnharris1969 The 15 Labour MPs who voted for
@CarolineLucas's Proportional Rep'n Bill. The whipped party line was
to abstain.

Why abstain? Could it be because they don't really want to change the status quo but don't want to be seen voting for the status quo?

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andyp in reply to @dst2

Someone should ask Corbyn, like a decent journalist for instance.

My personal opinion, fwiw, is that if you're genuinely serious about a 'new way of politics' then electoral reform to a proportional representation system of some description is a must.

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JWestland in reply to @andyp

Yep.

There are some issues that can come from STV and so on, but I doubt it can be worse than FPTP and there's data from Northern Ireland to see how it pans out in the UK.
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dst2 in reply to @andyp

yup

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