In my opinion labour’s victory was due to the utter incompetence of the conservatives and unexpected success of the reform party.
I don’t believe these circumstances will be repeated so labour will get demolished as usual in the next election.
The same applies to the lib dems getting 70 seats under FPTP. It won’t be repeated so they must work together to repair the damn system
Out of interest, if you tried re-running the election using hypothetical IRV results—giving every Reform vote to the Tories, every Green vote to Labour, etc. (not sure how you’d distribute LibDem votes. Presumably mostly to Labour at this election?)—what would the results be? Has anyone tried doing something like that?
Labour have just won a 174 seat majority on 34% of the vote with FPTP.
There would be no benefit to them in changing the system.
Oh, there is. There is no guarantee this will be repeated.
In my opinion labour’s victory was due to the utter incompetence of the conservatives and unexpected success of the reform party. I don’t believe these circumstances will be repeated so labour will get demolished as usual in the next election. The same applies to the lib dems getting 70 seats under FPTP. It won’t be repeated so they must work together to repair the damn system
Out of interest, if you tried re-running the election using hypothetical IRV results—giving every Reform vote to the Tories, every Green vote to Labour, etc. (not sure how you’d distribute LibDem votes. Presumably mostly to Labour at this election?)—what would the results be? Has anyone tried doing something like that?