The best way to convince Labour of the benefits of #PR is to deliver it at the next GE.

Remember, your vote has no bearing on the national outcome, it only affects your constituency, so voting other than tactically to unseat Tory candidates is a fool’s ideology.
Don’t believe me? Look at how many votes greens get & how many seats they have. Voting green, in a constituency where clearly they haven’t a snowball’s chance of winning is a wasted vote (sorry greens).

I urge all those who want, more than anything else, to GTTO, study your
constituency, look at who actually can unseat the Tory candidate, & vote accordingly. Voting along party lines, or family tradition, is a waste of a right given you by braver men & women than you or I.

Honestly, I’d vote for Count Binface if I thought he’d win the seat.
All the above having been said, I think, having considered the 2019 GE, by-elections since & the current, appalling sh*t show this govt is putting on, LibDems could return with MPs in 3 digits.
I can’t see Labour securing an outright majority in that case - and suddenly, we have #PR, in all but name.

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Except the USA, the world’s largest economy, has made it very clear they’re not interested. Even if they were, they’re so much larger than our economy, the negotiations would consist of little more than them faxing T’s & C’s with a note saying “sign this”.
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Firstly, they can’t, it’s not their’s to replace.

Secondly, any entity wishing to do business with any EU entity must abide by/comply with GDPR. That’s just the law, like it or not.
Introducing BDPP, Tory version of GDPR, merely means any EU entity wishing to do business with UK will now have to comply with two sets of legislation. By definition, this isn’t removing red tape, it’s introducing it. The very fact it will have to run concurrently with EU
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A few days after the initial idea took hold, the first action was put into play. Everything a nation thought it knew was as expected, but
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The well heeled co-conspirators went to work, speculating, investing, working their dark arts. Seemingly unseen, yet actually in plain sight.
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