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We are sick and tired of infantile and outdated Tory-enabling political tribalism. We want grown-up electoral cooperation.
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We are sick and tired of infantile and outdated Tory-enabling political tribalism. We want grown-up electoral cooperation.
#FBPA Follow Back Progressive Alliance
Daisy Cooper MP @libdemdaisy has argued that Progressive Alliances don't work. I would argue that she is wrong. The clear tactical voting messages in byelections will be muddied in a General Election, unless there is something like the 1997 Blair-Ashdown pact.
The 1997 Blair-Ashdown pact was kept quiet, but the agreed list of seats for tactical voting was published in the Mirror. It was very effective. I cannot see how that could be reproduced in the present day without the Tory media getting wind of the fact that there was a pact.
If the Tory media did get wind of a quietly arranged opposition pact, then they would screech about an election rigged secretly by the party leaders, and many voters would smell a rat. People don't like being secretly manipulated.
If there is no pact and if Labour don't look sure to gain an outright victory, then the Tory press would yell that a vote for the LibDems would be a vote for a Labour-led "Coalition of Chaos", a message reinforced if the opposition parties are loudly competing against each other.
A public electoral pact, in whatever form, would tell voters that the opposition parties had finally become capable of the sensible cooperation & compromise that would ensure good government if the election result meant they needed to work together.
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