Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance
31 Oct,
4 tweets, 1 min read
Since 2017 a majority of the British electorate has opposed Brexit, while the two main parties, fixed in place by FPTP have supported it. This is a catastrophic failure of British democracy. Labour in particular has failed, and FPTP has become a noose around democracy's neck.
FPTP made some sense while class was the primary axis of political division - two parties representing the two sides of the class division. But deindustrialisation has ended class politics, and FPTP has become a destructive relic of a bygone era.
What has replaced class politics is a fragmented electorate in which a large, mostly poorly educated, part of the electorate disorientated by economic and social change are clinging to the fake promise of safety and solidarity offered by tribal nationalism
The rest of the electorate, the majority, is highly fragmented and offers nothing like the coherent base that the working class once gave Labour. That's why the opposition needs a Progressive Alliance and PR.
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