Calling for a ‘rewiring of Britain’, he said: “‘The reason we’ve got such an unequal country is because power is very unequally held and used in the UK. That’s why I say we have to rewire the country so that power flows around all places.”
Although the party leadership does not approve the change, the conference has backed a motion which supports a “fairer proportional electoral system.”
“PR creates a culture of much better decision making and working across parties in order to improve quality of decisions made.”
‘Labour members need to understand the arguments and the concept of electoral bias. The FPTP electoral system now substantially favours the Conservative Party and works against Labour. ‘
‘The price of Liberal Democrat support for a Labour minority government would start with electoral reform without a referendum’
Following the Tory defeat in Wakefield and Tiverton & Honiton, people are arguing for electoral reform to eliminate the need for tactical voting
First Past the Post works to the Tories’ advantage.
‘Whilst the Government’s list of acceptable forms of ID has been widely drawn, it is estimated that over 2 million people will not have an acceptable form of ID’
‘Mandating proof of identity at polling stations would exclude significantly more people from the democratic process than it would prevent people from committing fraud on polling day. ‘
Labour are also under-represented compared to the Tories.
