Imho, the tories are going to lurch further right, then probably split.
But who knows!

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    It doesn’t, correct. But my point is that the centre ground has to compromise more because of their very nature. It’s inherently less extreme that the far right or far left. Literally by definition.

    Whilst there is a danger that “nothing gets done” in a coalition of the centre ground (which I think your poo meme is getting at?) I think the dialogue and willingness to accept compromise is better there. I’d rather have a government and politics on that basis than extreme lurches to the left and right with zero room for compromise if you’re not in one group or the other.

    So no, it’s not a silver bullet. You’re right. But that’s just where I’d rather be. PR as the form of government election voting in the UK and then to fill the house with a true representation of the country, which I don’t believe is as extreme as the current system portrays it.

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        Mostly at council level. Momentum (and I don’t think they’d mind that badge). Recent choice words by Labour councillors. It’s thankfully not the norm anymore but it’s there.

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            Momentum (and I don’t think they’d mind that badge).

            I think by their own definition they’re very far left, no?

            Recent choice words by Labour councillors. It’s thankfully not the norm anymore but it’s there.

            You only have to watch the news to hear Labour councillors being caught glorifying far left tropes about Jewish people and Israel.

            Neil Kinnock and Anas Sawar was on the news yesterday berating George Galloway, for example. Even Labour acknowledge want nothing to do with that side of things.

            Thankfully these fringe elements are being pushed to the fringe, but they have no place in Labour… in my opinion.

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      Compromise is not what is needed, progress is what is needed. You want to maintain a broken status quo with a prettier face

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        Compromise is not what is needed, progress is what is needed

        The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

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          Yes they are. Compromising with the side that support status quo is inherently against progress

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            Yes they are. Compromising with the side that support status quo is inherently against progress

            Forgive me but that’s a straw man argument. Why assume that parties in the centre want the status quo? That’s not what left, right, and centre politics means.